I wasn't considering EOF, though in principle you could.

It would be a neat way of handling it, because that token would be enciphered by whatever your starting cipher was. (Unless you only used tokens in the doc, which would be none, so EOF would be unchanged.)

@Eric The difficulty is that then you probably can't write certain programs at all. If you need a symbol in the middle which was switched to the EOF token, you'd have to end the file. Where does it continue after that?

@LoganM Good point, haha. I hadn't considered that. You'd need to make sure your encipherment algorithm would never spit out EOF.

@LoganM Why did you say the currently-airing question was closed? (I think you might have meant this for amv instead...)

@Eric That one was reopened. I think I did mean amv.

The only problem I have with killing currently-airing is that I don't know what to replace it with on that question, lol.

@Eric True. Let me think about that.

lol the only other one that fits is technology which I also want to kill.

Why was that question reopened anyway? Did I vote for that?

I thought we were going to migrate that one to meta and leave it as an FAQ-type question, and add some more about other resources for anime and manga.

> Post Reopened by Logan M, Krazer♦

@Eric щ(oдoщ)

lol! xD

That question's been through a lot actually.

Unlocking, locking, opening, closing...

anime.stackexchange.com/posts/156/revisions

Anyway a better tag for this question is anime-resources (or just resources, which we should create if these questions will be allowed in the future.

I guess that's something to decide re:lists.

@Eric wow, that's impressive

Yes, I think my list proposal would also apply to this one if it becomes policy. But I do think this (and a lot of other resource questions) could find a home at meta.

Actually, most of that happened in the scope of one day, with a very large chunk over just one hour. I don't really know what was going on there at that time.

How would this fit on meta?

I agree some would, this one doesn't seem to.

@Eric There was a proposal a while back to have meta posts for FAQ style stuff for those just entering into anime and manga. Things like what are all the different anime databases, what legitimate dealers are there for merchandise, etc.

@LoganM Happen to have that lying around? Or was it in a chat that wasn't bookmarked?

I wasn't much involved in the community affairs while everything was being settled, sadly.

(from private beta)

We should bump this up.

And see if we can get some more discussion on it.

If people decided it's okay I can write one for different anime databases myself. But I don't think this has enough votes to be considered community consensus yet.

Exactly. I think if we can freshen the debate, we'll easily get a half-dozen upvotes on a "yes".

Madara wrote that he thinks they belong on main, which I'd be fine with also. But we need to get a definitive answer one way or the other.

I'm fine with that too. SO (as bad as a role model it is--I see you, mister starred message) has old, locked and "archived" lists of such stuff.

In fact, I think that's almost better.

I'm not sure meta will get the same SEO or attention from newcomers as the main site.

@Eric locking is bad in our case because these things change. But CW + protected should be enough to prevent lots of bad answers, and people can flag answers if the resource stops being available.

CW?

Community Wiki.

Right.

Yeah, I can go for that. The only reason I go for locked is the message you get after locking it.

@Eric The point isn't to draw attention to them, but to diffuse attention from other sorts of questions. If we get a recommendation question, we can close it as a duplicate of the "where to find anime recommendations" resource question, for example.

Man, I can't even find a locked question when I want to. But it's like, "This question is off-topic or not a good question to ask, but is kept for historical significance."

@LoganM Ah, I see. Then they're definitely better on the main site. "Close as duplicate" cannot be used from the main site to a meta question, can it?

Anyway I think it's a good idea whether on meta or main. Given that the post is really old, it might be better to make a new post reintroducing the idea as a poll whether these should go on meta, on main, or be banned entirely (better to include this for completeness, though it surely won't win).

Sure. Would you like to, or should I take a swing at it?

@Eric You're correct about that

@Eric Go ahead if you want to. I've done enough meta stuff recently that I don't want people to think I'm trying to control the site.

Should I put the poll question up top, then 3 CW answers with each option?

@Eric That's how I've seen it done in the past.

Alright.

@Eric Make a note that people are free to edit their own arguments in for any of the three options also.

Sure thing.

Or maybe that's better done in the comments? I don't really know.

Well whatever. It doesn't really matter.