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Tips for asking Story Identification questions
As one of the site's top answerers of story-identification questions, I'd like to offer the following suggestions to anyone thinking of posting a question in this tag:
No detail is too insignificant. ...
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The many usernames of SFF.SE
Someone lay me down a sick beat. We goin' ham.
It's mid-2007, not too long ago,
when a little nerdy white boy and his buddies go,
and sign up for Xbox Live to play some videogames,
using Gears of War ...
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KutuluMike (Michael Edenfield) has passed away
Too soon. Far, far too soon. 43 years old? Shit.
For those who aren't familiar with Mike on-site (he became less active in recent years): as well as his Q&A activity getting him to almost 100,000 ...
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Unhelpful discussion around suspensions
While I agree with the general sentiment of what you've said (e.g. not having protracted discussions about users who aren't present) the main issue is that there is a total lack of information ...
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Why was a moderator on our Stack asked to step down?
First of all, allow me to be clear - Richard is an active and well-respected member of the community. His contributions and participation as a user are not in question. However, over the course of the ...
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Stepping down as Moderator
This will be downvoted, but let me be the first to say this is the right decision.
(I have nothing to do with any recent activity which may have led to this.)
As @Richard has said
I have become ...
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The many usernames of SFF.SE
I am named after the minor planet 14111 Kimamos which in turn is named after a science teacher in West Virginia and not the lady in Michigan who writes romance novels under that name. (Just kidding. ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations to our new moderators!
As a losing candidate, I send my personal congratulations to both Rand al'Thor and Null. I wish you and the entire community the best. I’m sure you’ll both work ...
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The many usernames of SFF.SE
I slammed my fists on the keyboard a few times until I got a result I liked.
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Is The Truman Show on-topic?
Yes
Many things make this film on-topic. A few:
The giant dome built that a whole (fake) city fits in.
It is shown that real lighting storms can be created in it.
It’s pretty dystopian.
Truman is ...
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Should this be a clickbait site, or should we stand by SE standards of question quality?
Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about. The quality and ...
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The many usernames of SFF.SE
I would give a whole detailed explanation for my username, but really just see the previous post, it's probably all explained over there. :)
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Isn't it about time we had a chat about our moderation team?
Moderators are elected to moderate the community, not to actively post.
It's not uncommon for a moderator's Q&A activity to go down and taper off entirely. As long as the moderators are monitoring ...
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What is our actual policy on science questions?
In-Universe Explanations — Even Based On Real Science — Are On-Topic
Any question that is asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe, even if that question requires real-world ...
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Tips for asking Story Identification questions
Questions must have as much detail as possible, including, but not limited to:
Media (short story collection, magazine, novel, TV, film, animated, website) Was it part of a series?
Original year of ...
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Is it acceptable to use unicode fonts for general discourse (Questions/Answers/Comments)?
NO.
Font styles should not be manipulated in any way beyond the tools given to us by Stack Exchange (bold, italic, block quote, preformatted, etc.) or basic html (strike-through, breaks, etc.)
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Is it lightsabre or lightsaber (or both)?
TL;DR, it's Lightsaber not Lightsabre.
Usage in canon
Outside of a couple of typographical errors in the Phantom Menace script, the sole usage is lightsaber in every single canon article on the ...
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How to find a story-ID answer?
A couple of weeks ago someone asked the same in chat, and I gave some tips (see transcript). I'll try to whip that up into a more or less clear guide below. Still in writing.
Disclaimer: all examples ...
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I see Britain, I see France, I see Wonder Woman's... satin tights?
It should use the original title containing the word "panties".
The question is clearly motivated by the lyrics in the ERB rap -- otherwise why use 25 stars as the cutoff. It should use the ...
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Is it acceptable to use an NSFW word in a question?
I already saw this question and its edit history due to a flag last night, so I've had some time to think about it. Here's my proposal for some general guidelines to cover situations like this.
It's ...
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Stepping down as Moderator
Thanks, @Richard.
And I mean that.
I've been annoyed with some aspects of your modding, like the announcements in chat every time you swung your "Hammer of the Mods". But I was very pleased with ...
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Let's talk about Story ID requests for erotica
They should be allowed.
As long as it's SFF, it's fine.
We are a site about science fiction and fantasy. And, let's face it... there are very often explicit scenes in SFF. And sometimes there is a ...
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Does this Meta policy overrule our Meta?
I'd reckon the closest thing we have to an official, network-wide policy on duplicates is found in the 2010 blog post, "Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&...
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Is it OK to downvote a question for being uninteresting?
Yes, Absolutely, Without Reserve.
First of all, at the risk of repeating myself:
Users Should Downvote However They Want
Downvoting on Stack Exchange is anonymous for a reason. As long as a user is ...
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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I hope the new chat room succeeds. It's a great way for users to discuss the site or just have a relaxing chat with each other.
In order for the new chat room to succeed, though, users will have to ...
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What is the proper etiquette for answering old questions?
By all means, answer it! Unanswered questions are a blight that needs to be fixed!
(To more be more specific: if a question hasn't been closed, then old questions definitely need love. There are ...
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Is the story-ID question that turned out to be about the Axe commercial, on-topic?
Yes, it is on topic.
First of all, the user asking didn't know it was from an Axe commercial. Angels are not unusual in works of Fantasy, so this Stack was a logical place to ask.
An answer should ...
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