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Am I a "Selfish" User?

I don't consider this particularly selfish. Without actually going to the trouble to look it up, other forms of rep have to far outweigh the +15 you get for selecting an answer. I'll get 150-200 rep f …
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A remedial lesson for those who have VTC powers [closed]

This is not worded as a question. I do not intend it to be one. You need to refrain from slandering questions that you do not like as a "list question" just so you can close them. If the person asks …
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Why does this community allow many non-answers to stand?

I pay attention to the review queue, and mostly only see such answers there. If the answer is less than 2 hours old, I leave a comment and ask them to improve the answer... I don't like smacking them …
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What is the reasoning behind the "no questions whose answer would be a list" rule?

If the question were worded in such a way that while the (proper/correct) answer would be a list but that the list is strictly limited in scope, why is this a problem? I can think of several answers, …
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Shark vs Gorilla Blog Posts

Ned Stark vs. Ursula the Sea Witch in a sock-knitting contest. Judged both on productivity and quality.
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Should we have a magic-artifact tag?

While reading through the questions this morning, I found this one: Where Did Dolores Umbridge Get Her Evil Quill? While all the current tags are correct, this is specifically about a magic item. It …
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What to do with adaptation differences questions?

We should always keep in mind that the point of this SE site is different than StackOverflow or ServerFault. We're not asking questions because we need the answer. No difficult problems are at stake. …
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Editing Posts and Rollbacks

I do not know why they do these things, but I've only noticed it myself from those with "1 rep". So not only are they new here, they're new to SE sites in general. The sort of psychology that would ta …
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PSA: When to flag things as spam

I'm one of the offenders here. I would like to point out that I wasn't abusing this feature, the user posted a rambling answer that did not answer the question or any other question, and he ended it w …
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Should we have a "That's the joke" close reason?

Primarily for use on Futurama questions, but could be more generally useful for other comedy science fiction. In Neutopia why didn't the Borax Kid teleport in Scruffy? We get 4 or 5 of these a month …
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We need to take a look at list questions

We are purely a "curiosity" site. There are no "problems" to be solved, this isn't superuser or stackoverflow. If anything, we need to reconsider allowing all list questions once again, after craftin …
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Google Books as a text source?

This is just a gut feeling, but I get the impression that Google isn't going to shut down Books. If I am wrong, we can do maintenance editing on older questions. There just aren't any other book webs …
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Who are our top 50 news magazines?

Who's the newb who posted this dumb meta submission anyway? That image is clearly photoshopped (I can see the pixels), Time Magazine only concerns itself with important things, like bleeding readershi …
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Is SF&F.SE the appropriate place to ask about Comic Cover Variations and Quality Approximation?

There is a Comics proposal up on Area 51. But until it goes Beta, it wouldn't be available for such questions. If I understand your question correctly, this isn't an appropriate place. While I would …
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What should I do with this write-up?

Ask the question and answer it yourself. After all, they give a badge for self-answers.
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