Yann Martel got a lot of criticism for his book Beatrice and Virgil. One reviewer described it as "is every bit as misconceived and offensive as his earlier book was fetching". Much of this criticism stems from his discussions about the Holocaust, and his use of allegory to discuss the Holocaust....
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Rather than continuing the rollback war that has occurred in the question. I instead decided to ask on the opinion of meta, I believe that edits made to the question change the meaning enough to make the answer given seem out of place, though @TheBitByte disagrees with...
No.
For the same reason as we shouldn't edit the answer into any question once it's solved. For story-ID questions, the story title is part of the answer, not the question. Editing it into the question, even in the form of a tag, would make people do a quick double-take and think "why did they n...
I read a book in the mid to late nineties that I don't have any clue how to search for. Here are the things that I remember from this book:
The main character was younger than 18 and he had a vision problem.
The kid played soccer, and was a goalie. The book had a few different parts where i...
The poem "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", usually attributed to Wilfred Owen although much of it was written by Siegfried Sassoon, is a slight retelling of the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac (see Genesis 22) in such a way as to turn it into an allegory of the First World War.
Not...
All votes should be reset when a question is migrated. That's votes on the question, in both directions, as well as votes on any answer.
At the moment, downvotes are cleared from the question. Yes, it makes sense on its own, but I don't think this is the right solution.
In my experience, commun...
What I know about this movie:
It has to have been released at most during 1982 but it's probably older. I know this for a fact because I am sure that I was six years old when I watched it and I know this because my whole first grade class was taken to the cinema. Also, we weren't taken to a regu...
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This question raised an issue that was already raised on several other child SE (see Judaism):
Should tagging make the question easy to find, or the answers easy to find?
I think the answer by Joshua tends to prove that we should not presume what good answers to a question are, hence not ta...
I was under the impression that Stack Exchange sites were forums, or forum-like objects.
If they are not forums: Why aren't they? What defines a forum?
This discussion is now closed.
Here's phase 1 of what we've decided to do about identification-requests (deprecating).
Here's phase 2 (blacklisting).
Here's phase 3 (delete and lock).
The topic of id-request is a very subjective one. I believe that it's difficult to provide an object...
A moderator asked me for data on the percentage of questions closed across all sites. This doesn't strike me as information that needs to be restricted to moderators, so for your idle enjoyment I present:
Questions asked, closed and reopened for all sites in 2016
Site Name ...
I know that ID questions are very contentious on different sites - some sites love them and others hate them.
I believe that they can be successful here if we set some strict ground rules to make the questions less of a "guessing game" and more of an actual, answerable question.
So, to help the...
