@LoganM It's a good image for our site, yes. But for Reddit, something that makes people go "wtf?" would be fantastic. (I assume you can include images on Reddit, lol)
@Eric I feel like that might get us flamed to death, or it might be a big hit. I haven't seen any high-rating posts depicting violence against pokemon on r/pokemon.
Well, I won't pretend to be an expert on Reddit. Thought it was worth the suggestion, though. You guys who are more experienced in its ways can decide what you'll do in the end
Also, as far as I can tell, you can't control the thumbnail photo, which is the only picture associated to the post. For links it picks a picture automatically, and there's no way to embed pictures in the discussion.
I think they both use it occasionally. We used Krazer's account last time, which had quite a few posts, though maybe not any on r/pokemon.
I will concede that we could probably get a pretty long-lasting thread going on some 4chan boards with that image, and it would bring in a reasonable amount of traffic, but I'm sure it would quickly devolve into pics of pokemon cannibalism.
I think that's why we decided not to advertise on any 4chan boards. Which is probably a good idea. We could bring in some traffic from /a/, and maybe /jp/, but those are two boards that we don't really want people from since they're both somewhat troll-heavy. I use a few of the smaller Japanese culture boards, which are pretty good, but most of those wouldn't really look kindly to us posting ads there (e.g. /w/ and /c/).
@Mysticial They don't make them easy to find; you have to search for the name of the site. blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet lists 6 such sites, as well as a very rough approximation of the criteria they use (or at least, were using a year ago).
Most of those sites had more traffic than we do. But we do have more questions per day than any of them by a lot (actually, we're doing quite well by network standards in that respect).
@Mysticial I think that's what we're supposed to be aiming for. SE says "eventually 90% should be search engine traffic". Right now we're probably pretty close to 0%. If we managed to get to 90%, we'd be pretty far in the "Excellent" category.
I don't particularly like the idea of stealing questions that way, but if it's the only way out - you'll need to play dirty.
@Eric Too early to call that. But I don't mind if a some speculative answers come in early. And in later episodes (when it is revealed), a real answer comes in.
@Mysticial Chemistry is probably above us. Chess is probably comparable, or at least will be once we're the same age as them. We actually already have almost the same number of questions as Chess, but they've got a fantastic answer ratio and really good content.
Our biggest problem is our # of users overall. When it comes to regularly active users we're alright, but in terms of total we're 2nd lowest in the network.
@Mysticial 3, and one of them is the site with fewer users than us. But we haven't even past Politics, which is very likely to be the first site they close if they start closing sites. I think the real problem is that while there are a lot of anime fans, most of them have never even heard of SE, and many of the people in the SE network who like anime are already here.
So we have to bring in a disproportionate number of users from outside the network, compared to the average tech proposal.
@LoganM Anime is a finicky subject. Tech is largely Q&A, there's usually only one right answer. (And when there's not, it's not constructive.) Anime is much more suited to forums than strict Q&A, which makes this challenging.
@Mysticial Yes. Politics is really having problems, like partisan voting, arguments leading to flaming, very low traffic, and very few questions being asked. It's just not a good fit for the SE network.
I was thinking about joining, but just browsing their meta was enough to convince me not to.
Amusingly, they also have the diversity problems we were having just a couple of weeks ago:
Presently, Politics SE has a very strong US bias. From counting country-based tags:
united-states: 119 questions
(european-union: 11 questions; not a country)
uk: 7 questions
russian-federation: 5 questions
italy: 4 questions
india france: 3 questions
australia
cuba
finland
mali
nepal
pakistan ...
Anyway, it's best not to think too much about the Politics site. If we start comparing ourselves to them we'll be rather proud of our accomplishments in roughly the same time, even though our position in the network is still somewhat in jeopardy.
I don't think we're in jeopardy just yet. We have a user problem, as Mysticial said, but we're only 63 days in. When we get to 200 and still have under 500 total users, I'll be worried.
In terms of traffic, we're actually only 10th from the bottom (out of 99). 2 of those sites are younger than we are, but the rest have been around 4-13 months, twice as long as we have in the lowest cases. That's still bad, but not immediately close-worth.
I've been copying the data from there and our area51 page daily for the past few days because SE doesn't give us enough data access for my tastes. I intend to keep doing it at least until we hit 500 views per day.
@Eric Over the past 3 weeks, we jumped from 160 to 270 or so. Even going into Sunday we were already at like 230. It's also true that these are 2-week medians, so the most recent increases probably aren't even factored in yet.
It's entirely possible, though admittedly highly unlikely, that we're already over 500 views per day right now, in which case we'll know in about a week.
(or never if most of those people don't ever return)
@Eric There are (I suspect) problems with that approach. Mostly that SE doesn't want their page view algorithm to be at all transparent. But we can conclude based on the fact that the 2-week median has increased every day that our traffic over the past few days is at least what the area51 stats show.
So if you just go by the area 51 numbers, as long as they are increasing every day, you won't overestimate the traffic that day. I could formalize this as a theorem, but there's not much point.
@Mysticial I get the feeling that if we successfully reverse-engineered their page view algorithm and exploited it to increase the apparent traffic on the site, they'd find out eventually.
@Mysticial We could maximize the page views per person per day, which might result in a 50% increase or something. It's hard to tell exactly how much we could exploit it unless we actually know the algorithm.
But if we needed that, we'd very likely be dead in the water anyway.
@Mysticial True. But given that fact, I'm actually rather surprised by how much traffic we have, since I can't imagine there are a lot of people finding us randomly through searches at this point and we've only advertised on reddit recently.
@Mysticial We've actually had quite a few cases which were probably difficult to notice. One where a new user included some extraneous info was probably going to get edited out either way, but there have been a lot of other strange cases. Let me go find some.
In this one, I originally used the translated name "Heartspan" which I found on wiki (I watched the show without subs so I only knew the Japanese name). Then Krazer pointed out that the name was made up by UTW. So I changed it to romaji, even though the fan translated name is the most common in English as far as I can tell:
In the Nekomonogatari-Black anime, yōtō "Kokoro-Watari" (妖刀「心渡」, sometimes translated as demon sword "Heartspan") is shown with different lengths, but it always appears to be bigger than Araragi. The size changing isn't very noticeable unless you are actively checking, so it could just be due to ...
Maybe that had nothing to do with fansubs and the Japanese name is just better in general. I don't know, but I think there should be some sort of policy regarding these things.
@Mysticial The fansubs question was never a copyright issue. We were never going to allow direct links to fansubs or download sites.
But we've banned any discussion at all of fansubs, even when they are relevant. Just mentioning the name of a group that subtitles an anime doesn't violate anyone's copyright.
@Mysticial Sorry I misread your comment. But I think that fansubs are relevant in a fairly broad sense to western anime fans. We banned discussion of them mostly to avoid legal issues, but after considering it I don't see how there would be any legal issues.
@Mysticial Also, there's the issue of linking to things like fansub website forums, which may have well-written posts about translation issues and/or fan theories about unexplained plot points. I think that's a gray area.
@Mysticial I agree, but it's a pretty slippery slope. What if the fansub group puts the translation issues in their main release post? Then is it allowed? That would be directly linking to copyright-infringing material.
@Mysticial The difficulty is that in some countries, even accidentally linking to copyright-infringing material is illegal, while in some it's perfectly allowed as long as you aren't the one providing the material directly.
Anyway I think this is something we should discuss as a whole once and then set a policy. Maybe after confirming with SE people that they are okay with what we decide.
@Mysticial That's what this discussion on scifi meta is about:
We now have the ability to embed Youtube clips. However, this opens up a new can of worms, or at least reopens an old can of worms.
The Stack Exchange terms of service state:
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Anyway I think this is a minor issue which will be hard to settle, so we should put it off for now. Wait until there's some demonstrable need and/or the scifi thread settles on an answer.
Isn't "Morning Rescue" that energy drink whose commercials came with a bunch of raws and gg simply didn't bother removing them from their releases? Mostly because those commercials were hilarious?
We made it to page 3, but now we're stuck on page 4. I don't think we'll make any traction on this site at all. It just isn't the kind of site that's interested in these sorts of things.
@Mysticial Personally I'd like to fix up that answer before we post it on reddit. It's missing some info and I think I can find quotes and images from the series to support the statements I'm making. But I won't be able to do that by this weekend, so if you want to post it by then I guess it's fine.
Given that we brought in a pretty good number of new users with the last reddit post (I count 6 active users in the past 5 days, and 30 total, which is pretty good), we might be better off waiting a couple of weeks before posting again. Let those new users get settled and earn some rep first. IMO it's more important at the moment to keep posting new questions and answering the unanswered old ones.
If we rush to post the few good questions we have, we'll run out quickly and it could have a negative effect on our reputation. So I'd say wait a while before posting. Once it's clear that we aren't bringing in new users again, or our traffic starts to stall, that's a good time to post. But as long as we're still showing signs of growing, I think it's fine to wait a couple of weeks between posts.
@Krazer @MadaraUchiha I know that we're not supposed to cross-post. But if I found an old unanswered anime question on scifi that I don't know the answer to, and I want to ask here, is that cross-posting? In principle I probably should be trying to use their site to get the answer to the question, but our site is way better equipped to answer it and the question hasn't had any activity there for nearly a year.
In Princess Tutu, Ahriu is given a pendant that detects pieces of the prince's heart, and allows her to turn into Princess Tutu so she can return them to him.
In the penultimate episode,
Migrating might work, but if we ask it here directly and then get a good answer we could post that answer over there too (linking back here) for more publicity.
Preamble
Since their introduction, migrations have been largely well received, but still cause some problems, typically in the area of folks migrating questions to sites they didn't understand or migrating subpar questions.
One of the key guidelines for migrating questions (after "don't migrate...
@Krazer Yeah I don't think that's the best example. It's easy to find the answer. I was just asking in principle whether or not it's allowed to cross-post an old unanswered question from scifi. If it is allowed, I'll find a better target before I do.
I've seen a question on a site I don't have an account on. The question was very interesting and it's also on-topic on this other site, where I am an active user on.
The question is on-topic on both sites.
Is it OK for me to post the same question (possibly with linking to the original) on the ...
@MadaraUchiha The two upvoted answers there say it's okay (as long as we cite appropriately), and I think that makes more sense than the other answer. Admittedly that only opens up 3 new questions, none of which are amazing, but I'll go and see if any of them are worth taking.
I'm tempted to ask production questions about anime like: What percentage of animation work is typically outsourced to overseas studios, like China and Korea?
Anyway I think that's a hard question to answer because there's not much information, but it's not a bad one. You just have to be a little bit flexible with what is allowed in terms of an answer. Instead of "63% is outsourced", you'll probably get answers like "Studios X and Y are known to outsource background animation to Korea" etc.
@Krazer I never realized that (I rarely read the credits), but have you ever seen both in the same credits? If you have, then that indicates that the two are not synonymous in an anime context, so I think it's a perfectly fine question here. JLU would probably accept the general question "what are the differences between 制作 and 製作", but maybe not if you're specifically asking about anime credits.
Can someone find a way to deal with the most recent edit of this question? It adds a lot of mostly unnecessary information and makes it very confusing what is being asked, even after there's an accepted answer.
The ending of Mawaru Penguindrum had a lot of ambiguous symbolism.
My first impression was that the writer had no idea how to resolve the fundamental questions of the plot, and thus had to throw out completely unresolvable symbolism in order to fake an ending.
A few of my driving questions throu...
I appreciate that the OP is trying to do something, but I don't know what it is. Probably he is still misunderstanding how our site is supposed to work, and what questions and answers are for. But since he's a new user with just this one question it's a somewhat sensitive situation and just deleting all the extra superfluous content might make him less likely to stay.
I would do it myself but I'm busy for at least the next few hours.
Presently, Politics SE has a very strong US bias. From counting country-based tags:
united-states: 119 questions
(european-union: 11 questions; not a country)
uk: 7 questions
russian-federation: 5 questions
italy: 4 questions
india france: 3 questions
australia
cuba
finland
mali
nepal
pakistan ...
We now have the ability to embed Youtube clips. However, this opens up a new can of worms, or at least reopens an old can of worms.
The Stack Exchange terms of service state:
Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, vi...
In Princess Tutu, Ahriu is given a pendant that detects pieces of the prince's heart, and allows her to turn into Princess Tutu so she can return them to him.
In the penultimate episode,
I've seen a question on a site I don't have an account on. The question was very interesting and it's also on-topic on this other site, where I am an active user on.
The question is on-topic on both sites.
Is it OK for me to post the same question (possibly with linking to the original) on the ...
