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I keep seeing this over and over and over in the review queue. Yes, story-idents can have identical answers, but this doesn't make them identical questions. Each person asking remembers different det …

I voted to close because I felt that it was not a real question asked in good faith. Are there any instances of [random controversial issue in real world politics] in [random science fiction or fant …

What is this? Should I be able to recognize it, or elements of it? I'm not half-bad at the science fiction and fantasy trivia thing, and this is just driving me nuts.

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. …

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

Check out this comment. An acceptable question would have been: "This is a peer reviewed literary analysis from a reputable source, showing this, that and thus example that the writing style clear …

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 …

I would like to point out that this is a very good reason to ask for story identification... if you want to finally get around to reading the book (or seeing the movie), you have to know what it is fi …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ok, I'll criticize my own question here: The asker of a list question would still gain rep from upvotes, even if others can be trusted to behave and downvote it back to 0. So it just becomes a way to …

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 …

An embedded video is little different than a link to the same video... the only difference is in how the http client (web browser) treats an embedded video. Instead of making a clickable word that wil …

If this site is about answering questions, especially those that have correct answers... why would we want to discourage them because it's often difficult to answer them correctly on the first try? Y …