@Krazer Well, people submit uncredited roles to IMDb when they have insider info, usually. We're a completely user-submitted information site. For live-action stuff, it's a lot easier, since you can recognize somebody in the background of a scene. It's harder to verify voice actors!
Uncredited people also often submit their own credits!
@Mysticial Given that you're one of the owners of this room, IMO it's your prerogative to make a separate room for administrative stuff if you think that's an issue. I don't think it is yet, but it could become a problem in the future.
@Mystical BTW since you're here, do you know the answers to your recent questions? In particular, the Black Lagoon one is going to be sad if it never gets answered.
@LoganM Should we be asking questions we know the answer to, but leaving them unanswered, to generate more questions & more visitors? This is my first SE trial run, so I'm not quite hip on the "procedures" here... :P
@Eric Primarily you should be asking questions which you want to know the answers of. Mystical and I are currently seeding the site with questions that are appealing to a demographic group that is underrepresented right now, so that if/when we do start to gain popularity, the site will be accessible for those sorts of people as well.
@LoganM Cool. Good to know. I'll keep doing what I've been doing then, unless I recall something super extra awesome from one of the series mentioned here.
The TLR one I have a pretty good guess what the answer is, but no good sources for that. So it's speculation.
I knew the answers to my k-on and nanoha ones, and I was pretty sure for OreImo. The Aria and Parappa ones I don't know the answer for, but it's clear that they can both be answered just by watching each show through.
Anyway I'm just trying to gauge what the worst-case scenario is for how many permanently unanswered questions we've added to the site. I don't think it's too many, but we should at least try to keep it under control so that we don't have a really large portion of totally unanswerable questions.
Ah good thinking. I think there's some danger if we get too many speculative questions to the point that people don't even look for the answers before guessing, but if it's a controlled amount and they can be speculated about intelligently then it makes the site more fun.
Yeah, right now, I don't think we have a problem with having too many low-quality speculative answers. So I think we should allow these types of questions.
I do, but I've been busy. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. But probably not. I have a paper which I have to submit next Friday, and it's not even half done. So I don't really have time to be typing up long answers. I really shouldn't even be chatting, but I have the excuse that my code is running right now.
I'll finish the paper this weekend and send it to my advisor, so I should be a bit more free by Monday. But this weekend, other than the scheduled meeting, don't count on me being here very much.
Not trying to throw cold water on the discussion above, but one of the problems with underrepresented series, is the answers cannot be "promoted" through upvotes etc. Consider this example: "How did Kakashi get his sharingan?" Let's say someone answers: "He purchased it at a ninja shop."
Now clearly this answer would get abolished because "we" know it is a troll answer.
Now consider: How did Lucy get the key used to summon Pru? [tag:fairy-tail] and the answer is: She got it at a magic shop.
This answer is now actually correct.
Which means the community just has to trust the answerer, which kinda goes against the SE design.
@Deidara-senpai You don't vote on what you don't know if it's helpful or not.
It's sad that the answer won't have as many votes as with one of the more popular tags, but that's just how it is
Also, "She got it as a magic shop" is still not a very good answer, providing with references, elaboration and detail is required to make the answer better.
Even if I don't know much about a subject, seeing an answer with so much detail and effort put into it is rarely a troll answer.
That tag is a bit questionable. IMO it should only to be used for explaining major plot points, but it's been used really inconsistently so far. Lots of questions that could have it don't, and some that do probably shouldn't.
@Krazer I'll add them anyway since we're not a site that has a problem with hitting the 5 tag limit. But I'll do it incrementally to avoid flooding the homepage. (not like I've already been doing that... hehe)
It's actually not non-constructive. It's perfectly reasonable to ask how in-universe mechanics work, especially when they aren't possible IRL. Of course sometimes there will be unexplained things, which require speculation, but that's fine as long as it's clear when the answerer is speculating.
And while were at this railgun question, the vote is 4 for changing index and railgun to their Japanese names. Should we just make the change now - and change again later if the vote totals shift?
@Mysticial but if I'm asking about something from the manga that hasn't been animated and comparing it to the anime would I need to add a manga-physics to it?
@Mysticial Probably almost everyone who is interested in this series has voted, so I'd go ahead and change it now. I think the mods can do it without bumping the questions.
@MadaraUchiha I dunno about manga, but "Anime Physics" is indeed the most well-recognized term.
So I'm actually leaning on using just "Anime Physics" for both Anime and Manga for now. If we have problems with it in the future, then we can change it.
While we're on the subject of retagging, we had a pretty strong consensus that it should be dragon-ball instead of dragonball-z, but it never got changed.
It was pointed out in comments at Rename tag "Naruto" to "Naruto-Shippuuden" that we have separate tags for dragonball-z and dragonball-gt, and we'll probably end up with a dragonball eventually. However, in the case of Naruto, one tag naruto is encompassing the whole series. ...
@MadaraUchiha we could, but how would we deal with a question about continuity between various series in a contiguous universe like the UC-timeline Gundam series?
"Anime Physics" is the commonly accepted term for anything dealing with the physics or mechanics in the Anime/Manga universe.
Option 1: anime-physics
It is the standard and most commonly recognized term.
The "anime" part seems redundant since this is an Anime and Manga site.
The "anime" part s...
I don't understand why that is in any way sensitive information that you need a sizable amount of rep for. On a low-traffic site like this you can usually figure out the vote totals anyway by viewing rep changes, but it's way more work.
@Mysticial when there's only two options, ask it like "Should we use [anime-physics] and not [physics]?", and use the up/down votes to determine, rather than having multiple wiki answers
I'd be fine with it if it were at like 150 or 200, but it's totally out of place. By 500 rep you can already retag questions and cast close votes. So you have some ability to influence the community. But you can't even see if a post is +1/-0 or +2/-1 for another 250 rep.
So this question... The Coolest Server Names
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical significance, but it's not...
I need to superping a user that apparently only has an Area 51 account, but when I try to use
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I get
User not found: @@xxxxx@discuss
I imagine there's something wrong with the way the domain name is parsed.
We should start thinking about the FAQ for the site.
Some of the point I think we should agree on:
What kinds of questions are good ontopic questions on this site?
Where is the line drawn between ontopic and offtopic?
Probably there are more, we should discuss.
@MadaraUchiha lol. I guess we want to append something like "We welcome questions about ..." and some description of what's on-topic and off-topic. I'm just looking at a couple of other faq pages to see what they're doing.
And I tend to agree, just because these questions are good, doesn't mean the user's is bad, he might get confused about whether his question falls into the correct category.
If we have a list of topics then it may close of room for things that are on-topic that we haven't thought of yet. Maybe we should try to be very general.
@Krazer I don't know if it works as written, but we are allowing questions about both the cultural impact of series and cultural origins for ideas from anime/manga. It would be questions like: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/541/…
@Mysticial Questions about anime/manga staff like directors, animators, writers, manga artists, and voice actors, but not how to draw, make or write anime/manga
Anime and Manga - Stack Exchange is a Q&A site for enthusiastic anime and manga fans. This includes questions about:
- Plot, character, or setting explanations - Historical or societal context of an anime or manga - Anime and manga identification - Tropes, terminology and other general anime and manga related information.
I currently have this: Anime and Manga - Stack Exchange is a Q&A site for enthusiastic anime and manga fans. This includes questions about:
- Plot, character, or setting explanations - Historical or societal context of an anime or manga - [Anime and manga identification][1] - Franchise/series reading or viewing order - [Anime][2] and [manga][3] production - Tropes, terminology and other general anime and manga related information.
I'm not actually sure what the "behind the scenes" is referring to, but I don't think we have any questions that would only fall in that category anyway.
@Veger They are not allowed partially because they are legal slippery slopes. We should phrase it as "Questions about where to get/download/see X as well as anything that is a legal slippery slope is not allowed."
Lemme check how Super User phrases their policy on piracy related stuff.
It was pointed out in comments at Rename tag "Naruto" to "Naruto-Shippuuden" that we have separate tags for dragonball-z and dragonball-gt, and we'll probably end up with a dragonball eventually. However, in the case of Naruto, one tag naruto is encompassing the whole series. ...
"Anime Physics" is the commonly accepted term for anything dealing with the physics or mechanics in the Anime/Manga universe.
Option 1: anime-physics
It is the standard and most commonly recognized term.
The "anime" part seems redundant since this is an Anime and Manga site.
The "anime" part s...
We should start thinking about the FAQ for the site.
Some of the point I think we should agree on:
What kinds of questions are good ontopic questions on this site?
Where is the line drawn between ontopic and offtopic?
Probably there are more, we should discuss.
