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Riker

12:08 AM

@Randal'Thor if you're curious, I count 15 badges that have not be awarded yet

only important ones: repcap a bunch, review 1k times, election/elected mod ones

though nobody has achieved a couple for voting/editing/answering a ton

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user61230

1:24 AM

A lot of those are run once weekly

Bookworm

2:11 AM

Q: Star Trek “relics” differences?

What differences are there between the Star Trek book “relics” and the television episode of the same name? I figured that people might want to know! I put down story identification tags I couldn’t find a more appropriate tag, sorry.

story-identification

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Double U

4:23 AM

I am a reviewer on another SE. I feel that the reviewer job is exhausting. There are endless numbers of reviews!

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Rand al'Thor

8:46 AM

@Riker That depends how you define "important" :-) Anyway, I count 19 (20 if you include one "retired" badge).

@DoubleU It depends very much on the site. SO and ELU, for instance, always have hundreds of reviews. Smaller sites like Literature, and even some larger ones like SFF, usually have just a few reviews in the queue at any one time.

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Bookworm

6:43 PM

Q: What do the lines mean from ‘to kill a mockingbird’?

Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks,farmers,and the crash hit them hardest. Atticus said the professional people were poor because the the farmers were poor.As Maycomb County was farm country,nickels and dimes were heard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.Entailment was on...

harper-lee to-kill-a-mockingbird

Bookworm

6:58 PM

Q: Is it reasonable to use the movie version of a book to interpret the book when the same author wrote both?

Related: How much weight should we give authors' declarations of their intent after the fact? Just to give a concrete example of what I'm asking about, I'm thinking in particular about The Hunger Games books and movies. Since the book was written entirely from the perspective of Katniss, the mov...