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verbose
verbose
04:24
@Randal'Thor I don't follow. Since when is meta only about site-management questions? "When and how do you re-read" or "What was the best book you read in 2024" aren't site-management questions; they're discussions.
Meta isn't just for "how to run the site." The main site is for questions that solicit clear cut answers. Open-ended discussions with no "correct" answers belong on meta. As @GarethRees pointed out, there's already a question on there for finding texts of books. This seems like a corollary to that one focused on print rather than e-texts. — verbose 2 mins ago
bobble
bobble
04:42
@verbose both of those are asking for personal opinions/experiences. The main site Q is asking for a process/method to achieve a literature goal, which could be answered more or less definitively by an expert in book collecting.
[I voted to Leave Open in the CV queue]
verbose
verbose
@bobble Fair enough. I'm not entirely convinced but I take your point.
bobble
bobble
Recent books I listened to and enjoyed: Talking to Strangers (Malcolm Gladwell, sociology nonfiction) and Nice Dragons Finish Last (Rachel Aaron, urban fantasy). The first one comes wit a raft of content warnings: descriptions of sexual assault (including of children), torture, and police violence are the ones that I remember off the top of my head. The latter has minor amounts of violence, PG-13 level.
 
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Mithical
Mithical
07:34
@verbose They're not what the system is meant for; meta isn't supposed to handle non-site-management questions related to the topic of the site that aren't good fits for main - we're bending the system to a certain degree and allowing some, but questions that can fit on main instead are better off not going to meta
verbose
verbose
@Mithical Ah. Thanks for the clarification!
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
09:51
@bobble Is this message a precursor to a couple more One-Minute Reviews? :-)
@verbose bobble and Mith expressed it better than I could, but you're certainly right in general that meta is much more lax on "on-topicness" rules than main. In the words of a then-CM:
This is the generic "What is meta" description, @Matt. Purpose #1 covers pretty much anything where y'all are talking to each other. What that means in practice is mostly up to you: if there are things you don't want to talk about, then they're off-topic. My point was simply that this was rather less controversial before the question was asked than it has become afterwards - hence encouragement to cite an actual problem rather than hand-waving at non-existent rules. — Shog9 Dec 30, 2016 at 2:47

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