Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Why was this question reopened when it is clearly asking to identify more than one work?
This question: What are these classic 80's action movies? was closed as "Needs more focus" and then subsequently reopened.
This was surprising to me. It's demonstrably asking to identify ...
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Is it good practice to add a better answer to a story-identification question that already has a correct (although brief/lacking) answer
I saw this new question which happens to be about a book from my favourite author. I immediately recognised it and knew exactly what OP's remembered details referred to within the context of the book.
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When to ask on SF&F and when to ask on Arqade? [duplicate]
I have a question about Fallout 3 and I don't know if I should ask it on SF&F or Arqade.
The question is
Why does Moira insists on you getting a mine from Minefield?
Should this question be on ...
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Are questions about copyright law on-topic?
We've had several questions about copyright law, specifically when certain properties and concepts will be outside of copyright.
When will copyright restrictions expire on Tolkien's works?
When ...
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Which versions of Dragon Ball Z count as canon?
Sometimes, I stumble across a question which involves the Dragon Ball Z anime universe, and more often than not, I'm reading information that I have never heard before (and sometimes information which ...
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Reopening a duplicate so you can add an answer, then reclosing it?
This question was asked yesterday: Very old novel about a planet with a living ocean
A comment was posted asking whether the answer was "Solaris". OP replied to say that it was, so I closed ...
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RIP Michael F. Flynn
Author Michael F. Flynn, most notable for the Firestar sequence of novels, passed away at the very end of September. Flynn got his start publishing short works mostly in Analog in the mid-1980s, ...
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What is the standard for answering "What was the plagiarised story published by Asimov’s?"?
What was the plagiarised story published by Asimov’s? refers to an essay published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, after the magazine apparently published a story which was later ...
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Is it okay to post obituary posts on meta for those who never were on a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work?
As you may know, obituary posts aren't allowed on Movies and TV Meta SE, and here, the scope is about Sci-Fi & Fantasy works.
So is it allowed to post obituaries for well-known filmmakers, actors/...
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Can ChatGPT Answer Story Identification Questions?
Many of the questions asked on Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange have to do with story identification. But if you just need to identify a story, couldn't you just ask ChatGPT or just Google ...
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In this situation, is it appropriate for a respondent to roll back all the edits the OP made to their post?
Two days ago, I asked a question. Specifically, my question was: "Do Starfleet officers get to go on leave during times of war?" I soon received two responses, both of which were clear and ...
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Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2023
I ain't no duplicate!
Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2023 through September 30th 2023.
Your answers will be compiled into a blog ...
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How to dupe-close these questions about The Kingkiller Chronicles
We have at least four story-identification questions with accepted answers on these books, one with the overall series as the answer, two for The Name of the Wind, and one for The Wise Man's Fear. ...
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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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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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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.
Original
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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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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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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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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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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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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