Should we allow comparison of anime characters here? For example, "Which character is better? Character X or Character Y?" Like,
Light Yagami (Death Note) VS. Lelouch Vi Britannia
Others might ask something like that or put them (characters that are being compared) into a situation where t...
As i observed Madara Uchiha used in many questions about Madara the first person. Like "stated that I had indeed transplanted" It is referred to Madara and not to himself (I guess he isn't Madara in "real life").
Should we allow the first person as character in questions or answers? It could get...
As I read the meta page, I see increasing number of "Should we allow...?" questions.
We're in a phase when we are creating rules about the site. The natural reaction is that we see a question which arises our doubt - seems poorly written, barely on topic, common knowledge, not specific enough - ...
My instincts are towards objectively factual questions... but then I would basically have to reject half of the front page of questions. So I suspect that instinct is a leftover from SO and japanese.SE
Well, we've been a week into Private Beta. According to the Moderator Pro Tempore, the SE Team will pick up (usually 3) users to become Moderators more or less a week into Public Beta, until we graduate, so let's start with nominations. After graduation there will be actual elections where users ...
@Alenanno It's not a duplicate. The question is asking about two separate methods for bringing the user back. Even if the answers are identical that doesn't mean the questions are identical. At best it means they are related.
@Alenanno Maybe the older question's title should also be changed? I don't really know what constitutes spoilers because I've never read or watched Naruto.
hm, spoilers are going to be a real pain for us to deal with, more so than any other site. Normally I'd say hide tags for a series you're not up to date on, but since the anime is often behind the manga that just isn't practical.
@Shog9 I agree 110%, which is exactly what I've been saying on meta. However, the hide tag feature has always been a good method for users to avoid spoilers. since the anime is always behind that just isn't going to work.
@Alenanno The problem is that if someone asked the same question about a few more characters, and we did the same thing with the title, we'd have multiple questions with the same title floating around.
@Wipqozn Meh. If you're super-concerned about spoilers, hide the tag or just don't open the questions. Stay out of chat. Stay off The Internet. Otherwise, don't worry about it.
@Shog9 It's not about being paranoid. It really sucks to have deaths being spoiled if you're following a series. Even in normal series or movies. At least deaths should be spoiler-protected.
@MadaraUchiha So don't read them. This isn't your co-workers standing by your cube talking about a series you haven't finished yet, it's stuff you have to seek out, open, and read.
@Shog9 I'm mostly referring to spoilers in titles. I did exactly this for A Song of Ice and Fire over at SFF until I was caught up. The special problem we face is that since an anime is almost always behind the manga it's going to result in anyone just watching the anime needing to avoid participating answering questions until the series is over. It would be nice if we could come up with a method to allow anime users to still take part in the site.
@JNat You can have a good title without including spoilers, and if you can, you Should. But in situations where you can only get a good title by including a spoiler you should include the spoiler.
Can't we just have actual spoiler titles? You can see it's a spoiler and the tag says which series. (Note: I just joined the discussion and did not read the backlog, so no idea if this was already discussed.)
@Alenanno I still think it's a pretty rare situation. I can't think of too many cases where you'd be able to answer a plot question involving a spoiler without actually knowing that part of the plot itself.
@Mysticial If you dump the original title it will turn up this question as the first reslt, which is why I think it's borderline. Remember, google and the site search the body and the title/.
The main problem with that title is if we a get a few users asking the same thing about different characters.
@MadaraUchiha It may be wise to make a meta detailing how to make spoiler-free titles (and proper spoiler mark down use), and knowing when you should include spoilers, and then link to it in the FAQ.
The line should be crossed when there's a hard limit that can be passed, such as the case where an ongoing series has both manga and anime running parallelly.
For instance, a question's title can ask Why Jirayia wasn't revived with Edo Tensei, because that event (where Edo Tensei was used), already happened in the anime
@MadaraUchiha The difference between manga and anime is the unique problem we face. On other sites the "hide tags" feature is the ideal solution for users to avoid spoilers for a series they're not up to date on. This solution is less than ideal for us though, since anime only users will always be behind.
Let's take a look at what situations would it benefit, hurt the reader: 1. If the show is currently airing, and has just finished. You can expect *many* people to have not watched that final "spoiler" episode. 2. If the show is very old, you can expect the vast majority of the people who care have seen it all the way through.
In the case of 1, spoilers in titles are potentially damaging. In the case of 2, spoilers are probably fine because the only people likely stumble on the question are those actively searching for it.
@MadaraUchiha It would. Next week a new episode will come out for Naruto, and that line for "anime spoilers" is going to move up a bit. Any questions about the anime which are now behind the line will need to be edited.
@Wipqozn True. But it will require action on the user's part. So it may be a rough entry for new users. We can add it to the FAQ - but of course, nobody reads it anyway.
@Mysticial I fully support adding such an entry in the FAQ. However, we're not going to come up with any solution to help users avoid spoilers that doesn't require action on the users part.
Look, anything that creates a shitty post or a shitty title is something you have to avoid. There's no guarantee that someone's gonna go back and fix it after it's no longer "current", and even if they did you're just "spoiling" it for folks who aren't watching / reading the stuff the day it comes out.
You either want to create a site full of information that's gonna be helpful to folks in perpetuity, or you're on the wrong site.
@Wipqozn And I think it will rarely work as well. A question without a searchable title is as good as a dead question - unless it happens to be the most upvoted one on the site.
@Wipqozn Which is probably fine. Once they realize that they can hide tags, then they will. But the only issue is how to communicate to a new user that (s)he can hide tags.
@Wipqozn We could make it even more obnoxious than the FAQ. Once a new user has used the site for "long enough", we can do a banner, "Seeing too many spoilers? Hide the tags for the shows you are currently watching!"
I know the average internet user doesn't read the FAQ on a site, and they get away with it, but we're Stack Exchange. We're supposed to have a higher standard for our user base than other places on the internet. With that in mind, I don't think expecting/requiring users to read the FAQ is too much.
@Mysticial So long as it doesn't require intervention on behalf of the SE team, I'm fine with that.
Which reminds me... @Shog9: Can we edit the email our site sends to new users after they've been here for so long?
Because if we can edit the how to ask and the new user email that gives us two additional ways to communicate with users. The "how to ask" could include a brief paragraph on spoiler mark down, and to strive for a good title above all else, with a link to a more detailed meta on how to make good titles without spoilers, when you have no other choice, et cetera. The new user email could let us inform users about the hide tag feature, sine we could include a paragraph about how to use it.
Speaking in ideals again, our 2k+ users should be active enough that we can catch bad titles and fix them quick enough so that it won't be a huge problem.
@Mysticial I got one on Arqade, but it may have just been because my shell is really shiny and I made an awesome answer.
@Alenanno Yeah, we're referring to the editing privilege.
@Mysticial I have a similiar problem. I haven't been an active anime watcher in a few years. I still read NAruto/Bleach, but nothing else is currently on my plate.
Yes. After their names were revealed, it seems as if "suddenly" everyone knew about it. Even Gai, and even the Raikage mentioned his parents without them being mentioned earlier.
That leads me to believe that people knew, and it was part of the taboo not to speak of it (or Kishimoto still hadn't...
@MadaraUchiha I think that was just a plot hole :P
@Shog9 Ok I agree. But I don't think we should just get a "who cares" attitude. If the title is good without spoilers, then this should be the preferred choice. If the title can't help but have spoilers to be good, then I'm fine with it having spoilers.
@Alenanno Your first concern should be writing a good title. If you do that and then realize there's a spoiler in it which doesn't need to be there for the title to still be good, ok, remove it. But always, always err on the side of having a good, specific, accurate title. If that means spoilers, oh well.
@Wipqozn which one?
@Wipqozn no
@Mysticial You did pretty well. There are some stats on the sidebar of the front page now.
Something like 80 questions/week is our bare minimum; if you can't hit that, you're not getting out of beta. Beyond that, quality seems reasonable, and you've all been good about talking out problems on your meta.
I saw the email on my phone after a nap. it's probably the first email I've received since the private beta email (a week or so ago?) that isn't spammy. I almost missed it because I was about to give up on email.
were rep requirements for certain privileges updated already? I used to be able to see up/downvote count on questions/answers but now it says i need 750 rep (~260 more than I currently have)
@Shog9 maybe I'm spoiled because japanese culture was the first proposal I followed and it has a lot of good questions... area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34330 if anybody wants to see
@MadaraUchiha the top section of the FAQ, the various places that describe the "audience" for the site (where it says "anime and manga fans" right now) and (if need be) the little block of text that appears above an answer the first few times you post an answer on the site.
and, yeah, the stuff atl notes
@atlantiza kick off a discussion about it
it's up to the moderators to edit it, but they won't unless there's a clear need
@jkerian nah it's fine like I said it's not of too much concern to me since I barely visit jlu for now. I need to go make lunch anyway... I keep procrastinating...
Was it ever explained why
From my understanding, the summoner only needs a good bit of genetic material to bring someone back and
