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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3-vote close - how's it going?
Part of understanding the impact of three-vote closure is to understand what impact it's having on y'all. I'd like to ask anyone who feels up to it to write an answer to this question and to tell us ...
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Is this Naruto question on or off topic?
Regarding one of @Pablo's recent Naruto question:
Why did Naruto decide not to use Rasenshuriken due to the harm it did to his arm, if he could create it with clones?
At first glance, this seemed on-...
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Regarding actions on posts flagged as low quality
Just wanted to consult regarding reviewing answers flagged as low quality. More often than not, I encounter these answers on review queues for low quality posts:
There are only 3 given actions for ...
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Is this question about an oni with a dragon on them on or off topic?
I recently flagged this question for not being suitable for Anime and Manga Stack Exchange, however, with recent edits, this question does seem on-topic although I cannot really tell if it is.
This ...
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New users answering a string of questions within a particular time frame and vanishes. Is it good?
I am noticing an eerie pattern in the home page. Some new users(registered for couple of days, some are unregistered) answers a string of questions within a particular time frame (say 1 hour), then ...
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Does this hat belong to the protagonist of Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow?
On the main page of the site, there's this hat on the left side:
Does it belong to the protagonist of Japanese anime Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow?
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What is the rules of this site?
What are the rules for this site since I keep getting my questions closed from the rules I want to know so I can avoid breaking these rules
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2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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2021 Policy Review: How do we want to name series tags?
Given the recent question How should "My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's" be tagged? I think it's good time to codify a policy in regards to series tag names.
As it ...
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How should “My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's” be tagged?
There is a question asking about this series: What kind of demon is in "My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's"?
Researching for possible titles from the internet:
My ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Anime & Manga's fourth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Anime & Manga is scheduled for an election next week, October ...
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2020 Potential Community Moderator Election - Community Interest Check
Thanks for the interest, folks. We've now set a date for the election to start question collection next Monday, October 12th, 2020. Nominations will open the following week in the 4th moderator ...
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What should I call the BNA/Brand New Animal/Bī enu ē tag?
I want to make a new tag for Studio Trigger's BNA as I noticed there was no tag for it.
I also didn't see any best practice guides here or in the help section about how to create a tag for an anime/...
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A&M Monthly Engagement Post #3: On music id-requests, organizing policy tracking, and proposal for bounty board system
As another month goes by the moderation team has been discussing a list of topics to hopefully improve user experience within the community. The topics for this month includes:
A plan to deprecate ...
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Rename [girl] tag to clarify that it is not about a general topic about girl
There is a girl tag which is actually about GIRL, an animation short by Hibiki Yoshizaki published on Japan Animator Expo. However, recent questions tagged with this were usually about ID requests for ...
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What made you join A&M and engage with the community/site in the first place? How has it changed over time? What could engage you once again?
I would like to revisit the reasons for using SE Q&A sites, and A&M in partucular, and whether you still feel like it's something you're interested in using as an average user would, or if ...
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Would questions asking for scene that can illustrate a concept on-topic?
From What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center, all identification questions or recommendation requests are off-topic. However I'm not sure if asking for a scene in a particular anime/manga is ...
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Should we allow opinion based questions?
I think Anime SE is a really good community for Anime/Manga fans to discuss their opinions about animes or mangas and anything related to them. So I think we should allow opinion-based questions and ...
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A&M's May engagement, where are we now, and where do we go from here?
It has been about a month since we posted our message regarding the new initiative.
We mentioned a few objectives and initiatives, and asked for feedback in regard to these.
So let's take a quick look ...
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Now Announcing: A New Initiative for Anime & Manga SE Engagement (it's a work in progress~)
Dear Fellow Members and Lurkers of the Community,
In these trying pandemic times, we find ourselves with an excess of time and a need to apply it. Since our graduation and our “design graduation” we’...
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Is song identification the new show identification (and does it have the same problem)?
Maybe there's just some confirmation or recency bias going on, but it feels to me that in recent months there's been a large upsurge in questions of the form "What is the song playing in Episode X of ...
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Is UnOrdinary on-topic?
I've been asked a couple times on the Maid Cafe if UnOrdinary is on-topic and thought to get more of a consensus than just making the decision myself
Why it would be on-topic
it has the "anime/manga ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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On-topicness question
This is just to discuss the on-topicness of this question.
What do you guys think?
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Has my post improved?
Why do cross-dressing characters like Hideri Kanzaki usually have high voices?
This post received a lot of downvotes. It seems like the root cause of the downvotes was due to the "voice ranges" ...
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Why was a seemingly valid answer in “What is the bounty of Gol D. Roger?” got deleted?
In What is the bounty of Gol D. Roger?, there was an answer posted by a new user stating a crude, direct answer to the question.
The original revision might look low-quality since it only stated the ...
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Should A&M reduce the close vote requirement down to 3 from 5?
Recently we've had our stellar diamond moderators step in the gap and close questions on the site which shouldn't be kept open for too long (mostly identification requests).
It got me to thinking - ...
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Downvotes: When is Maika Sakuranomiya's birthday?
When is Maika Sakuranomiya's birthday?
This closed post of mine has been heavily downvoted. Why the downvotes?
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Happy Holidays, Anime & Manga SE Community!
Yet another year has passed, and the season of festivity is once again upon us.
This year around a lot has happened in our community once again, and as a community, we should celebrate the good.
One ...
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PSA: Reputation has been recalculated for questions
So if you logged in today on any site you might have seen either your Rep go up all of a sudden or this
as per the link in the banner, Stack Overflow is now rewarding Questions more rep
We’re ...
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What's the difference between remove the sentence and put <s></s> on the sentence?
So just now I look some old question and I found that there is an answer that is written something like this:
The resurrected Minato is stronger than when he was alive, but that is due to the ...
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I am here to know why my questions are put on hold with a solid reasons? I need someone to explain I am new
why I am asking for help, it is basically because I am new to anime. I am also a user of other communities like StackOverflow and puzzle exchange. but I don't get the reasons why the questions are put ...
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Is there a way to find old post?
I joined this community back years ago and asked about finding an old (80's) anime. The answer I got was accurate but the Anime Stack-Exchange community was curated since then and old posts aren't ...
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Is adding more proof/evidence not allowed?
So there's a question someone already answered, but I found that the answer can be improved by adding a few more examples. But it seems like this is not allowed...
As you can see below this image, I ...
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How does one get suspended due to voting irregularities and what can I do to avoid it?
Just noticed one user who was very active in asking questions suspended. I can't seem to find any criteria on how a user is determined and suspended due to voting irregularities.
I'm curious since I'...
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Congratulations! Your site design is now live!
As you may have already noticed, our new design is live! ✧*｡٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*
Thanks for all the input over the years, and particularly in the most recent Meta posts around this (here and here). As was ...
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Should we really allow spoilers in the title?
By nature, this site is where we ask questions from both manga and anime. However %90 of the time, anime is behind the manga so asking a question from the manga can be considered as a spoiler for ...
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Is comparing feats from characters from different animes on topic in Anime SE? [duplicate]
I found this page which compares feats of fighting characters from different animes based on data from the series.
Top Strongest
I wonder if this kind of questions are on topic here, since they can ...
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Are Japanese culture questions derived from animes on-topic?
For example,
In anime XYZ, W person behaved this way.
Why did he do so, is this common in Japan?
Is this kind of question on-topic?
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Anime & Manga Site Design — June update
A bit over a month ago, I presented y'all with the design we'd created for this community, and asked for some feedback. The response wasn't the most positive one, and some of the things we heard from ...
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The “Asking” page is unclear about if ID-ing merchandise is off-topic [duplicate]
In the Asking article it says that you can ask about
[...] a piece of merchandise that you or someone you know personally owns.
Further down the same article it says:
Are you looking to ask a ...
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Is it alright to compile a list of a series' soundtracks in one discussion?
To clarify, what I'm describing is a discussion where the question is about a series' soundtracks and the answer would list the soundtracks used, the approximate time it occurs and a brief description ...
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What is the new icon? [duplicate]
I see that the site has a new look. And there's a circular icon with what looks like a 4 leaf clover.
What is this and how does it relate to anime?
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Anime & Manga Site Design
Some quick notes based on the feedback provided here and in chat:
On the original feedback gathering post Catija left a really relevant link that I failed to put in a more conspicuous location, which ...
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When to use the spoilers tag and should it be used at all [duplicate]
Ok, this is my personal opinion, I always thought a spoiler tag in a Q&A board about stories doesnt make sense. Why? Because anything it's a spoiler for someone who hasnt seen a segment of a story ...
