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Here's to the next great adventure, Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon, most remembered in the SFF community for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film franchise, has passed away this morning at age 82.
While Michael may have been loud ...
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Is Barbie (2023 film) on-topic? If so, how should we tag questions about it?
I am wondering if the 2023 film Barbie is considered on-topic. The film depicts a fantasy world called Barbie Land, where various Barbies, Kens, and other characters such as Allan live. A significant ...
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Should closed questions return to the front page?
Is there something unexpected going on here?
Why do time-travel stories often have the characters "returning" to the future?
The linked question was closed three years ago and yet it has ...
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RIP Arleen Sorkin, voice of Harley Quinn
https://www.superherohype.com/news/545532-arleen-sorkin-passes-away-harley-quinn/
Harley Quinn voice actress Arleen Sorkin has passed away at the age of 67.
The news was broken by fellow veteran ...
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Why was this question closed as off-topic for "seeking recommendations or open-ended lists"?
This question was closed for "seeking recommendations or open-ended lists", neither of which are true. There is definitely a limit to the depictions asked for, and no recommendation was ...
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Clarification request: does this stack host questions about artistic license for film adaptations?
I posted a comment to Are the knife/sword fights too fast in Dune (2021)?. @AndresF. responded to the comment with a request to post the comment as an answer.
I have nothing at all against @AndresF.'...
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Do we gain our reputation back if we undo an accidental down-vote?
I know there is a loss of one reputation when you down-vote a post but the reputation change takes time to show up.
If we accidentally down-vote a post and undo it a few seconds later does the ...
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Should we ask to limit the number of Community bumped posts on the front page?
This answer about reasons for Community to bump questions notes that it's possible to impose a limit on how fast/often Community can bump posts:
Some sites prevent additional questions from being ...
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Why the massive rep-drop yesterday?
Tons of people across the site lost reputation yesterday (UTC 7/23/23). I lost a measly 20 rep, but some people lost tons more. After losing 11k+ rep, poor Valorum's back down to 660k (oh, the ...
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Shouldn't [the-little-mermaid] include the original as well instead of just the Disney adaptation?
Currently, the usage guidance for the-little-mermaid does not even acknowledge the existence of the original story, reading:
For questions regarding Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid. Always use in ...
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Am I allowed to edit an old question I posted that has been closed?
As stated, I asked a question over 5 years ago that was closed due to "Needs to be more focused". Now, the irony is that I was recently in a Half Priced Bookstore, and found the book I was ...
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The Gfycat animated image hosting platform is shutting down
Per a notice on their main page:
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September ...
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Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2023
Updated
Blog has been posted.
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Like, you know, whatever!
Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2023 through June 30th 2023.
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Sci-Fi moderator on AI content strike
As some of you may be aware a new policy came into effect recently, whereby moderators network wide were told to not moderate new content on the site solely on the basis of it being AI generated.
If ...
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Profile name has changed unexpectedly?
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but could not anywhere else I could think to use.
Logged on today to check the stack and posted a comment and saw that it was from "user92109"
Wait, ...
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How should we deal with questions asking about the meaning of words in a sci-fi setting? [duplicate]
We have also seen the questions. So I'm not going to directly link to them here. But what is the consensus on how we should deal with questions that ask for explanations of English language words used ...
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Did we change the voting button formatting?
Recently, I was looking at a question, and these are the voting buttons:
I have a page, opened earlier today, which shows different formatting.
Was there an intentional change?
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RIP Ray Stevenson, actor in Thor, Rome, Punisher: War Zone
Actor Ray Stevenson passed away recently at the tragically young age of 58. Since his breakout role in 2004's King Arthur, Stevenson had been a genre mainstay, playing supporting roles in G.I. Joe: ...
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RIP Tina Turner
Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues icon Tina Turner passed away at her home in Switzerland today, at age 83.
Although most knew the "Queen of Rock'n'Roll" for her music career, Science Fiction ...
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Are the Privilege levels in Meta the same as SFF?
I haven't spent much time on the Meta side of things so I'm a little confused on how it works. Obviously it's the same in the sense that users have access to both and all my rep carries over, but what ...
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What part of the "Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of The Fifth Element" question needs more focus?
This is regarding the question: What is the significance of Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of "The Fifth Element" video game?
It was closed as "needs more focus" and left ...
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How do I hide a question without closing or deleting it?
I want to make a question invisible so that it cannot be closed or deleted, or edited by anyone, without actually closing or deleting it myself.
How do I do this?
I want to come back to it later on ...
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Rehosting anonymous pictures hosted on Imgur because of Terms of Service changes
Imgur has published new Terms of Service to take effect on May 15th. Of specific note for us is:
removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account
Historically it was ...
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story-identification questions with multiple answers
Is there a consensus on how to handle questions that might have multiple valid answers when the question author is looking for a specific story? I ran into this on retro computing SE also that some ...
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Archive.org may be forced to take down the Open Library
Mentioned in a comment here, but the Internet Archive lost a decision regarding the hosting of digital copies of books. I know that I will often link to one of their books for story-identification ...
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Worst age estimate for story ID
Do we have any idea or way to track the worst age estimate for Story ID questions?
Movie about Space Pirates that have bodies tied to their ships
80s or 90s is pretty wild for the 2005 film Serenity, ...
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Why does my reputation not add up?
I recently posted a question and it was received quite positively. But I check my stack account once everyday and today when I saw my reputation timeline of upvotes I saw this -
Thats (250+70+20) - 6 ...
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How many upvotes is too much?
I've recently been going around the Harry Potter questions and looking at the answers. There are a lot of good answers, but I'm a bit worried that I'm upvoting a little too much for some users that ...
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What are the limits on "scifi"?
I want to ask a story identification question about a book I read in the 1980s - one of the main features of the book was the highly advanced multifunction wrist watches involved. These watches were ...
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Is chat-bot generated text acceptable for tag wikis?
I've been reviewing a spate of tag wiki additions in the Suggested Edits queue, and I noticed that a couple of authors I'm quite familiar with (Walter Jon Williams and H. Beam Piper) had descriptions ...
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Same question, I expect a different answer
I have a question, and I found out that the same question was asked, and there is a perfectly suitable answer there.
However, I am looking for a different answer (I am 100% sure that it exists). ...
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Why is the upvote to views ratio so weird? [closed]
My highest upvoted post has 8k views to it, but has 24 upvotes.
Now some might say that the questions's not so interesting but the highest upvoted question on this site has some 400+ upvotes and 82k ...
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Answering duplicate story-identification questions
I responded to a story-id question with a comment suggesting that it's a duplicate. Several years went by with no word from the OP, and the question was still unanswered, so I decided to post an ...
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How should we handle [story-identification] questions that are word-for-word duplicates (or slightly reworded versions) of a prior question?
There are these two story-identification questions that seem to be asking to identify the same thing:
Anime with boy who can grow crystals on his body, posted in July 2021 and currently unanswered
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Are apocryphal religious texts fair game?
I was reading When where the first links between Cain and vampirism made in literature?, where an answer stated that versions of Genesis before the 1800s included an additional line alluding to the ...
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Duplicate of a closed question
This recent story-ID question is a duplicate of this old question with the same answer accepted in a comment by the OP. Unfortunately, that old question was closed by the site police for allegedly ...
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Should we kill all the [authors]?
I just noticed that we have a tag authors. This seems fairly useless: it's impossible for someone to be an expert in "authors" generally; we already allow tags for specific authors, and what ...
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Can (and should) I copy the answers from this similar question on another stack?
This question has answers on the Movies and TV stack exchange, So can I and should I copy the answer from there and post it to this question here?
Link to mentioned answer
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Should we have a sticky listing FAQ-ID questions?
Suggestion - Some story ID questions get asked over and over again. Maybe we should have a sticky listing the most frequent ones.
The list would include:
The Gold at the Starbow's End/ aka Starburst ...
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Are questions about pornographic material allowed? [duplicate]
I came across this question on review tasks.
So are such type of questions allowed on the site? I mean technically the OP does say that it has sci-fi elements such as the presence of a cyborg and ...
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How should we tag questions about "The Last of Us" (TV show and video game)?
How should questions about the HBO TV show The Last of Us (2023) and the video game it is based on, The Last of Us (2013) be tagged?
Should a franchise tag and a separate game / TV show tag with the ...
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How much vulgarity is too much? [duplicate]
I've been on this site for 11 months now and have deducted that vulgar language has been generally looked down upon here. But there have been instances where I have come across people(not naming them) ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Where is this taken from? [duplicate]
I've been wondering for a long time what the picture on the top right corner of Sci-Fi SE site is.
So is this taken from a famous movie, book or is it something original made for the site itself?
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How many total users and total "voting" users does SFF have?
I'm sure there's a Data Explorer query for this, but it's been many years so I'm hoping someone more proficient has one handy. I'm looking for two stats:
Total SFF.SE users
Total SFF.SE users who ...
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If I bountied a question and then answered it myself, why does my account not get the bounty back?
I recently bountied a question of mine and got the answer to the question, so I answered my own question. Basically, I asked the question on two sites and bountied both of them. One person on another ...
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Will I get the bounty?
I posted this answer, and it was received negatively, but there is as a 500 bounty on it.
So will I despite the negative 4 downvotes receive the bounty at the end of the grace period??
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And the Best New User of 2022 is
As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am continuing this honorary post based on a simple premise...
The user with the highest rank in the yearly ...
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What's the best way to cite the source of a photo?
My recent answer included a photo for illustration. I had done like I always (try do) do and added a citation under the photo.
However, an edit was made that moved the citation into the photo's alt-...
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Would asking to identify a Manga Drawing Guide, be off-topic?
Tineye reveals that this image is from before 2009 and a reddit thread somewhere said it looked like from a manga drawing book, like "Super Manga Matrix".
Would asking where this girl came ...
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