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12:41 AM

@Bookworm Millions of literary works, and we keep getting questions about a small handful: Lot[RF], Atlas Shrugged, 1984, SitD have all cracked 40+ questions on here. Given that SFF undoubtedly must get a bunch of LotR questions too, that's really something.

bobble

@verbose that question's deleted

Alex

@verbose scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lord-of-the-rings

Nearly 2,000

verbose

@bobble That's good, it was a really lazy question. But it doesn't displace LotF from its position as one of the highest asked about works on our site.

bobble

@Bookworm it's on the HNQ

verbose

The top ten list continues with Narnia, Holmes, Henry Porter, Macbeth, and, surprisingly, Don Juan. Hamlet is at position 11, with just one question less than the Byron poem. (Since I have a question queued up, or cued up [either one works], there's gonna be a tie for 10th place soon.)

@Alex Wow, that's about one question for every other pages of the tetralogy, yes? 😐 Narnia must have a bunch on SFF too

Alex

12:50 AM

Narnia only has 58.

But Harry Potter has more than 6.5 thousand.

verbose

@Alex Still more than we have on here, though given how much bigger SFF is, I've expected there to be a lot more Narnia questions there

Alex

Significantly more than the entire site here.

verbose

@Alex eek

Alex

@verbose I guess Narnia is not as popular among that crowd,

@verbose I'm guilty of contributing a nice amount of them.

verbose

I used to enjoy the Harry Potter books, until JKR would NOT shut up about them. Let the books speak for themselves, lady. And I loathed that awful play script ....

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Alex

12:55 AM

I get over that by posting answers that deliberately contradict what she says.

This answer is way better than the one from JKR herself! — Shana Tar Oct 3 '18 at 15:12

verbose

The only real surprise in the top ten is SitD, but those questions were mostly from that durum wheat product aficionado from Korea who kept asking meaning questions until we gently directed them to ELL

@Alex More power to you!

I mean the fact that the others aren't surprising doesn't mean they're not disappointing

Also, Macbeth is the shortest and in some ways most accessible of Shakespeare's plays so that is unsurprising

Alex

@verbose Though the community there often doesn't like that approach.

verbose

Wait, actually, Don Juan is surprising.

@Alex ah, fuck 'em

you keep doing your thing

I'll cheer from the sidelines

Alex

One of my favorite (and longest) ones was languishing with a negative score forever. It just recently made it to zero.

verbose

Did we have a topic challenge on Byron or sth?

@Alex do tell

Alex

1:02 AM

Hm, it actually has a positive score now. +9/-8

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A: Did Voldemort actually curse the job of Defense Against Dark Arts professor after being denied the position?

The job was probably not cursed. There is no true evidence that Voldemort ever performed such a curse. No one saw him do it. No one heard him do it. No one heard him talk about it. The only piece of evidence ever proffered was the fact that no one held the job for more than a year after Voldemor...

verbose

@Alex oh well never mind then. 😛

Alex

I think it actually sparked a debate in this Chat room about the sif=gnificance of authorial intent.

verbose

@Alex authorial intent is not the determinant of a text's meaning. I would die on that hill except enough actual literary critic celebrities (insofar as one can say "literary critic celebrities" without cracking up) have been making that case for about a century now.

@Alex that is a good answer. I was skeptical until I got to the point about Quirrell's lack of intro

I'm not gonna create an account on there just to upvote, though. Sowwy

Alex

I'd prefer a downvote. Get it back to an even zero.

verbose

Migrate that question here and I'll upvote your answer!

7 mins ago, by verbose

@Alex oh well never mind then. 😛

Actually if a question that's already answered elsewhere gets migrated to a different site, do the answers also get migrated? I presume they would, right?

The question disappears from the original site after some time, doesn't it?

Alex

1:13 AM

I know comments definitely do.

Which is sometimes odd when you see comments that made sense on one site but not on the other, but there is no external indication of migration.

verbose

Ah, I shouldn't speculate and I should simply ask: What actually happens when a question gets migrated to a different site? Does it show up entire, with all comments and answers and comments on answers from the first site? Does it disappear entirely from the original site?

@bobble would know, she Knows All™. (Not to be confused with being a know-it-all, which she isn't.)

Alex

With all that said, all comments and answers are preserved during the migration except for the comments on the question that happen to include a URL to the destination site since in the vast majority of cases those comments just say "you should post it on othersite.stackexchange.com"; or something along those lines.

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Q: What happens to unregistered users' comments/answers after migration?

Recently a question of mine was migrated from unix.se to SO. After a few hours I noticed that all answers and comments from a given user had disappeared (there were only 3 or 4 users who contributed). I could be wrong but I don't think he is registered on SO. What happens to comments and answers...

More details here.

verbose

@Alex ah that's helpful

bobble

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A: What is migration and how does it work?

What is migration? Migration allows a question that isn't a good fit for the site it is posted on to be gracefully moved to another site in the Stack Exchange network where it would be a better fit. It preserves the current revision of the question, all its answers, any comments on any post, and ...

Mostly the first part is relevant for you

verbose

1:38 AM

@bobble thanks, that was helpful

bobble

Slight correction: I do not know all the things, but I do know what keywords to use to search for all the things

verbose

bobble

Any other questions about migration?

verbose

@bobble I'm told that flashing lights or caffeine can lead to migration, is that true?

Oh wait, no, that's migraines I'm thinking of

not the same

bobble

If you are a mod and the flashing lights hypnotize you into clicking to migrate, then yes :)

verbose

1:43 AM

@bobble ah

bobble

Migration had caused sites problems, especially migrations from SO

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Q: Please stop using SoftwareEngineering.SE as your toilet bowl

Stack Overflow users have been using the "off topic - belongs on SoftwareEngineering.SE" close reason as an alternative to all the other close reasons. It'd be helpful if people actually read the FAQ and the six guidelines for subjective questions before voting to migrate questions like: What's...

discussion off-topic softwareengineering-se

etc.

bobble

3:30 AM

italics seem to break the graying out of downvoted answers when on mobile

also quotes for that matter, but to a lesser extent

not bolding, for some reason, but italics and bold break it

for an example with a bunch of these together, see this answer

also, can't figure out how to click on answer to remove graying

not sure if this is a known bug?

can't figure out the right main-meta keywords if so

Mithical

4:37 AM

I've definitely seen it before but I can't find a report.

Bookworm

4:52 AM

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james-joyce

Eng Lit Learner

6:50 AM

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7:19 AM

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