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Are these really sincere questions?
The following questions were migrated to us from Sci-Fi not too long ago:
Are the Teletubbies Cyborgs?
Are the Teletubbies Prisoners?
I'm honestly having a hard time taking these questions ...
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Promotion through Gaming.SE - ideas needed
Gaming.SE has a Community Promotion Ads contest that might be interesting for us: http://meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3352/community-promotion-ads-2012
The short version is: Post a small ...
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Discussion on identification questions
In Jeff Atwood's post Let's Play The Guessing Game, he pretty much condemned that identification questions just don't work too well in the Stack Exchange format. However, our sister site Science ...
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What does this number means in user details?
What does this circled number means in Movies and TV beta?
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Are the qualification bars for some of the badges too high?
I've been trying to evaluate the percentages of users, hits, votes, etc. some of the requirements on gold badges (100 votes) seem to be on par with a site that has the traffic and use of ...
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Self-Evaluation: Why cutting an 'X' into ammunition?
I want a way to properly answer self evaluation in a way that exceeds the comments section so here it is.
In terms of the general audience, it would seem someone would choose to say bullet or bullets ...
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Is it right to answer your own question within few minutes?
Is it right to answer your own question within few minutes without even waiting for response from users?
Maybe I am wrong but I ...
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Movies & TV Self-Evaluation: How ARE You Doing? [closed]
There are lots of metrics we can use to "measure" a site, and we do, but none of them matter as much as having a healthy and happy site full of interesting questions and expert answers.
So, let's ...
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What to do with educated guesses in answers
This question: Isn't something wrong with the digits on this guy's watch? has an accepted answer that is basically an educated guess as to the format of the time elapsed.
I saw someone down ...
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Disambiguation between franchise and movie tags
Slightly related to Why are there no tags for famous franchises?:
What will we do to distinguish between the tags for a movie and the corresponding franchise/series of movies?
Examples: batman, saw, ...
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How long should people wait before posting newly released movie spoiler questions
Is there a perscribed courtesy period before posting questions on newly released movies? I've seen a couple "morning after" questions about previous nights newly released movies and thought to myself ...
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Why are there no tags for famous franchises?
In Movies and TV Beta why are important tags for famous franchises like saw not there?
I even think that Movies and TV Beta doesn't have many tags.
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Should questions about which artist sang or played a song or music in a movie be allowed?
A question of mine, "Boys Don't Cry (1999 film): Who is the band or artist that played the cover of the song, “Boys Don't Cry”, by The Cure, in this film?" was recently closed as off-topic.
What is ...
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Can we safely add images to questions and answers?
I really appreciate questions with images, because they often help to specify what is being asked and pep up long text passages.
But what are the rules for adding images of movie scenes
taken as a ...
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Do we want web-series on-topic here?
Warning!! Poor examples ahead!!!!
Day[9] Daily
The Guild
Journey Quest
Pioneer One
Among other series are popular web-only series that air on a regular schedule, with each episode archived for ...
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How to use genre tags?
Genre tags are tags describing the genre of a movie, like horror,comedy or thriller.
Currently there is no consistent usage of these genre tags on the site. While they are mainly being used for ...
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Is this question about Blu-Ray digital formats off-topic?
This asks about different digital formats, while not explicitly about how to play them, just the difference.
Would this type of question be on topic due to it relating to digital movie format or ...
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How can we encourage more questions for brand-new movies?
I noticed that many questions asked on this page are about more complex aspects of "older" movies like Inception. I think this is great and analysing these movies is one of the reasons why I love this ...
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Should [history] and [cinema-history] really be synonyms?
The tag history currently redirects to cinema-history. I think they should not be synonyms.
cinema-history questions clearly should ask about the history of cinema and movies in general, how film ...
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Should we close older Identify questions?
We have about 25% of our unanswered questions belonging to identify-this-movie, 9 of which were asked over 2 months ago (before March).
I want to close them purely for the fact that they have been ...
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View count not real
My Question Question shows 1 view but I know it's not real because someone edited the Q so he must have seen it. It should have least 2 views. I noticed this happens on all SE sites with many ...
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How do you distinguish when a question should be asked at SE movies vs. SE scifi?
There are a lot of questions on http://scifi.stackexchange.com which relate to Sci Fi movies and TV shows.
It seems like this site would be the place to ask those questions.
Is there a difference ...
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Should Cartoon tag and Animation tag be merged?
cartoons and animation exist separately. Is there a reason they should be separated, or would we be better off merging/synonymousing them?
I see nothing special that cartoons brings to the table as ...
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Need an appropriate way to rephrase a soundtrack question
I am curious to see what movies had an original song (or album) composed for the movie itself.
I phrased it this way: What are the top five soundtracks... but it was closed as being off topic ...
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Please elaborate or clear up the FAQ with regards to what is considered off-topic?
So I was watching an episode of Unforgettable on the weekend, and could not help but be intrigued by the car driven by Carrie during the show, and since I live in South Africa, where the specific car ...
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Are asking-for-resources questions considered as off-topic?
Reading the FAQs, I found that asking-for-resources questions is not covered in the FAQs.
Can I ask asking-for-resources questions in the main site, such as:
Are there any resources that explain ...
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Are movie and TV show recommendations on-topic?
In my opinion, movie and TV show recommendations should be off-topic on our site. The following is an example for that, and I voted to close.
Some TV Shows like “The Big Bang Theory”
If mods agree ...
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Should adult movies really be on-topic?
We've gotten two posts about adult movies in the last 24 hours. Do we really want questions about adult movies to be on-topic?
By adult, I mean videos that are recorded and viewed for....
Honestly, ...
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Is this a quality identification question?
identify-this-sci-fi-action-thriller-actors-could-jump-between-walls
This question is extremely lacking in details. I want to close it unless the op can add some other details. Thoughts?
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How to subscribe to Movies and TV weekly newsletter?
I'm pretty much interested with Movies and TV Stack Exchange site.Unfortunately, I can't visit the movies and tv site quite often.Surprisingly i couldn't find any link in movies and tv to subscribe to ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Does the question need to edited or did I miss a rule?
How to make sure an actor/actresses is in something that is not on their IMDB profile?
I'm not asking to edit IMDB. I'm asking how to verify if it's not listed. From previous answers given on this ...
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Tossing around some contest ideas
With the recent success of Gaming's contests, it got me thinking about our potential as a site to run similar contests. I would like to get an idea from the community about my ideas for contests and ...
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Why doesn't there seem to be an obvious “Cancel” to abandon an answer in progress?
I was creating an answer for a question, while searching for the supporting CSI: link. However, I couldn't find the link and decided to just Stop without submitting an unsupported answer. There is NO ...
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This just doesn't seem to be a good question to me
Are there any instances of disaster movies coming true?
I don't particularly care for this question, it's a list question.
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Are “First movie to do X” questions good?
To me, this question seems like a dressed-up list question (or at least, the first part is and the second part is justification for it being legitimate).
It may be this particular question that's a ...
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Questions grouped by movie / series
I know we don't want tags for movies or tv series. But I would be very glad if somehowe we could produce a list of unanswered questions grouped by movie (or tv series) title.
Such a grouping would ...
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Why was it closed as off topic?
I asked the following question:
Are there going to be any more episodes of L5?
Which isn't a speculation imho. I wondered if there are going to be any more episodes. And since it's a low budget ...
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Are where can I locate old film / TV show questions valid?
Slightly different from "Where can I buy X?" questions, are questions about locating archives which may contain old films or old TV episodes valid? I thought they were valid and posted three of them ...
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Should individual tv or movies have its own tags? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Should tags for individual movies be encouraged
Should movies have their own individual tag?
e.g. If a movie is about inception does it really need its own inception ...
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Should questions targeted at a certain audience be allowed?
This question is based on the conditions placed for answer by the following questions:Who was the boss, andSamedi back-of-train .Since the site is meant to ask and answer questions from an audience ...
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Why the remake?
This this question: What is the purpose behind "wax on, wax off" in Karate Kid?
Why was the edit created that used the link to the newer remake of the Karate Kid and not the original?
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Aren't we being too easy on [identify-this] questions?
I am sad that some people seem either lazy or pretentious (they are marketing the movie) in
the tag identify-this-movie.
Example 1: If the asker knows it's a Wayans movie, was it so hard to go find ...
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What's to do with images that don't help with the question
Some people attach images in their questions, even if these don't add any value in helping others to answer the question (example). Should these be edited?
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Should movie trivia questions be closed?
Should we allow questions that are intended for trivia?
e.g:
Who played _ in __ movie / tv ?
How many seasons did _ have?
Who produced __ show?
What was that movie that had __ (person) in it?
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Are questions about cinematography on topic?
Are questions germaine to the idea of cinematography on-topic?
More specifically, questions that relate to developing or creating movies.
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Linking to copyrighted material on YouTube?
In a current question (here), the original poster commented on my answer that the pilot episode of the TV show in question is on YouTube. Is it appropriate to link to this content?
While I think ...
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Could a question of the week be asked on this site?
Over on the Sci-fi&Fantasy StackExchange I noticed they have a question of the week feature. http://meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-feb-20
This can ...
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Available link for Privileges
I'm not sure it's the right place to ask, but i couldn't find the link to reach the Privileges page. So my question is: is there a link/button that does that or i just couldn't find it?
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What is the best way to notify a double posted question?
This may be a dumb question about overlapping questions on sites. What is the best way to notify a double posted question? ...
