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steelersquirrel

Jan 19, 2017 13:46

Even Shakespeare wants the Steelers to beat the Patriots on Sunday!!! ;)

Himarm

Jan 19, 2017 13:40

its ontopic

Himarm

Jan 19, 2017 13:39

its got shakespeare on it

user61230

Jan 19, 2017 12:30

@AJ United we fall, divided we win!

Rand al'Thor

Jan 19, 2017 12:25

@Benjamin Books are more interesting than programming languages.

Rand al'Thor

Jan 19, 2017 12:24

Literature: the new hub of Stack Exchange!

Gallifreian

Jan 19, 2017 12:09

@Mithrandir 'ere you go

Mithrandir

Jan 19, 2017 12:02

ID questions are only useful to the op. Other questions are useful for everyone. Once you have the answer to an ID question, I don't think that you should repost them.

Rand al'Thor

Jan 19, 2017 12:01

@b_jonas No, no, that's not how it works. Those of us who are in favour of ID questions should set an example by creating some really exemplary ones.

Rand al'Thor

Jan 19, 2017 12:00

@AnkitSharma Great! It's nice to see the scope of the site expanding with more non-English literature.

b_jonas

Jan 19, 2017 11:42

Which is funny because the single ID question I had on Sci Fi is about a book series I saw in a book store, without sitting down for a moment, and since it's a very thin children's book, I read one of the series right there quickly..

Mick

Jan 19, 2017 09:32

You could make one out of all the books that you no longer read. All that you need is a staple gun.

M.A.R.

Jan 19, 2017 09:21

Changing avatars is fun

Catija

Jan 19, 2017 04:10

@Hamlet I guess I don't see how an author tag is useful... but I'm clearly also one of the only people on the entire SE who doesn't follow tags or use tags to find questions to answer. If it's not on the recently active page, it doesn't exist for me.

Hamlet

Jan 19, 2017 04:05

For crying out loud, what is wrong with tagging stories by title and author

user61230

Jan 19, 2017 04:04

@Randal'Thor Those two are actually different questions. One asks about why Hamlet did something in-universe; the other asks about why Shakespeare decided to write Hamlet in that particular way.

Catija

Jan 19, 2017 03:54

Once again, the real need is a hierarchical tag system...

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 19, 2017 03:17

Haaalp!

HDE 226868

Jan 19, 2017 01:52

@DVK-in-Florida "Call Me Maybe", then is literature?

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 19, 2017 01:48

@HDE226868 Well, I'm admittedly not too firm in Mythology's scope, but once he get into territories where the line between folk tradition and individual authorship blurs, it gets interesting. The Illiad would be an example.

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 19, 2017 01:07

translate: Rahmenhandlung

Rand al'Thor

Jan 19, 2017 00:17

Mmm, @CHEESE is here. Anyone hungry?

BESW

Jan 19, 2017 00:03

> '[...] There's glory for you!'
'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.
'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'

Shog9

Jan 18, 2017 23:21

No, a "spoiler" tag isn't necessary / useful - you're just guessing at what others won't want to know.

Rand al'Thor

Jan 18, 2017 22:58

Of course, that argument can be taken too far and used to mean "don't close anything ever".

Gilles

Jan 18, 2017 22:56

@fi12 and bad question ≢ off-topic question

Shog9

Jan 18, 2017 22:51

If y'all think it's on-topic, then vote to reopen / raise the issue on meta.

BESW

Jan 18, 2017 22:43

....Don't curate tags on the first day.

Gilles

Jan 18, 2017 22:25

“But no one goes to a sushi restaurant for shredded carrots.” [citation-needed] “I've never heard a group of friends walking out while patting their bellies and saying to one another, ‘boy howdy, the salmon was ok but those radishes - what a sublime delight!’” — I have (no these exact words, but the general idea. And the implied idea that nobody comes to a Q&A site for identification questions is total bullshit, since you are aware of a counterexample. — Gilles 2 hours ago

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 18, 2017 22:14

@BESW Information found elsewhere is fine. But if your answer is a one-liner that is answered by a mere factoid, I'd question the question's value.

Catija

Jan 18, 2017 22:12

@BESW That really depends on the site. Questions like that would be utterly off topic on M&TV because we're not duplicating IMDb. Otherwise, we'd be full of questions like "Who was the star of _____"... we really don't need a site full of that crap.

Catija

Jan 18, 2017 21:37

@Benjamin I don't even know that we need a special room for them... there's no reason to shove everyone into a secondary room when the main room is here... it's on topic.

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 18, 2017 20:54

@SQB Oh god, please not. That is one of the worst design ideas on SE.

DVK-in-Florida

Jan 18, 2017 20:44

@Randal'Thor I think @Mithrandir might be, actually?

DVK-in-Florida

Jan 18, 2017 20:32

@Emrakul Comment and downvote. Full broadside. And post on meta about downvotes being GOOD.

Napoleon Wilson

Jan 18, 2017 19:54

I got 2 rep today. \o/

DForck42

Jan 18, 2017 19:38

i feel that they don't really add appreciation to the works, and are merely trivia

Catija

Jan 18, 2017 19:22

@Randal'Thor ALL OF THE SITES!!!!

DVK-in-Florida

Jan 18, 2017 18:55

@steelersquirrel Squirrel is here! This chat room is officially a success.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

Jan 18, 2017 18:32

#squirrelpower

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

Jan 18, 2017 18:20

I think so yeah

amaranth

Jan 18, 2017 17:33

everyone back up... she might explode

Rand al'Thor

Jan 11, 2017 23:17

dusts off cobwebs

ladenedge

Oct 11, 2011 00:33

It's book club time, people! meta.literature.stackexchange.com/questions/239/…

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Gilles

Aug 18, 2011 21:32

@TML I changed over time. In the very early days, I thought they were fun and interesting. Then (day 6) I downloaded all the question titles to sort them out, and realized 25% of the site was list questions. They felt overwhelming.

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TML

Aug 18, 2011 20:26

If it becomes a "high-brow Literature" Q&A site, I'd really have to bow out, as I don't know the first thing about that stuff

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Ivo Flipse

Aug 17, 2011 20:03

@Kalamane Simply have experienced readers play Jeopardy on 'popular' books. They already know the answer, but they simply ask them to point out how awesome the book is. Masked behind content you actually want to see on the site

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Shog9

Aug 17, 2011 17:18

The only solution is to elect someone who isn't here as Book Club President, and then blame them for everything.

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Shog9

Aug 10, 2011 16:45

It's got a table - that takes effort!

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TML

Feb 8, 2012 05:02

I'm still not entirely sure I understand how the numbers were referencing the bible - something to do with the Pentateuch

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