@Eric It seems we weren't the first people to think of a Klingon language SE. Somebody proposed it almost a year ago, but it got closed: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40599/…
@Eric It was kinda boring actually, but I did get an idea of what kinds of proposals are generally successful. I also noticed that the criteria for a proposal not to be closed seem to have become more lenient in the past year or so.
BTW I updated the Stats to today. The past week was pretty bad for all of the stats except % answered (and maybe answer ratio, but we can't tell).
However, we do have a number of users who are nearly at 200 rep. I've been looking at their posts and if they are reasonable I've been upvoting them. We may be able to jump up to 75 in the next week if they all break 200.
As the title states, why can't Pan go to Super Saiyan Mode?
We see in a the last episode of Pan's grandson turning Super Saiyan while he fights a descendant of Vegeta. Are female Saiyans not able to turn Super Saiyan?
I've now watched quite a few anime and I'm still at a loss as to what the term moe represents. Is there an agreed upon definition for it? If a character is moe, what does that mean?
@Krazer Did it get linked to (that you know of)? That seems like a pretty strange thing to get a lot of traffic, especially if it wasn't before, unless it got linked to somewhere or became the top Google result or something like that.
That's good, though if I use my numbers of 323 hits per day, even if we reached 90% with the same level of other traffic, we'd only be at around 1100 hits per day, which is still not enough by SE standards.
But I think it's a good sign. We need to make sure our content is easy to find, which presumably means making sure titles are Google-able and the questions are over things that people are likely to search for.
@Krazer That's unfortunate. I wonder if we're losing some of our old users.
I don't know how total page views is counted, but I know that I haven't been as active recently because school is much busier right now than most of the time. I suspect the same is true for a lot of our members.
@Krazer If it's not adjusted to avoid counting the same user multiple times, that probably means that users are visiting the site less now than they were before. That's true of me and probably lots of other members. I don't think it means much in terms of people who find the site via searching.
@LoganM Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors to your site. If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session. Users that leave our site and return within 30 minutes will be counted as part of the original session.
The initial session by a user during any given date range is considered to be an additional visit and an additional visitor. Any future sessions from the same user during the selected time period are counted as additional visits, but not as additional visitors.
@LoganM Though GA can track unique vistors by cookie, the analytics panel does not provide that information on the time. But it makes sense that SE would be more interested in how many sessions are engaged than the amount of unique visitors.
While page views are down, but visits are up, we could infer that we have a deficiency in the amount of interesting content that can keep the users coming back to check
@Krazer That is a possible explanation. However, it seems to me also possible that this is a particularly busy time of year, which results in our regulars visiting less often. I know that's true for at least 4 people who are in the top 20 or so users, and I suspect it's true for others. If enough of the top users are busy, that will have an effect on total traffic. I can't see the exact numbers so I don't know how big the change is, but if it's not too large that's one possible explanation.
Also, we've had fewer questions in March than we were getting in February, which is very likely to lower the total page views.
BTW what do you guys think about this question? I think there are probably dozens of examples if you are loose with the definition of tsundere, and it's sort of subjective in a lot of cases, so IMO it's probably too broad to be allowed.
There are a lot of anime which features female tsundere like Shakugan no Shana, Kaichou wa Maid-sama and more. I would like to know anime where there is a male protagonist who is notably a tsundere.
@JNat I don't think this question is salvageable. Not without completely changing the intent. Looking at myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=5380, there are probably over a hundred examples. I voted to close as NC.
For questions that don't satisfy the 4 criteria, here is how we have decided they will be dealt with:
If it fails #1, close as NARQ because it's hard to tell what is being asked.
If it fails #2, close as not constructive because it's subjective.
If it fails #3, close as NARQ because it isn't re...
Front page right now is Naruto, Naruto, Naruto, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Shounen tropes, and then one of my questions. I think it might be a good time to ask some questions from really obscure stuff just to add a bit of balance. I'm almost completely asleep right now but I'll try to come up with something.
@LoganM Our visits didn't drop much. It was 319 on the 10th and then again on the 18th. At the very least, it's steady. Other than that, though... yeah, quite a bad week.
I'm exhausted right now. I just finished my homework which I've been working on for about a week. I also spent 14 hours on Saturday grading exams and stayed up all night last night to finish my homework on time.
Sadly, I can't find it. It was a Youtube advertisement. I tried reloading the video but I didn't get the same one, and the ad itself doesn't seem to be uploaded on youtube anywhere.
@Washu If you can find questions that aren't fully answered, please share them here. I'm intending to compile a list, but I can't do it right now because I'm barely even awake.
Ah I thought you might be referring to the OP of the question that guy answered. He was also fairly new to SE, though he had around 170 rep on ELU when he started here. When he was hovering at around 111 rep I was almost going to go over there and serially upvote enough of his questions to push him over 200, to get the association bonus to push him over 200 here, but he got enough upvotes here to break 200 without that anyway.
As for codey, I think that answer would be better as a comment personally. But I'll leave that up to the mods.
BTW I know that serial upvoting is frowned upon, but would I get suspended just on that site or network-wide for doing it? I don't really care about being suspended on ELU, but being suspended here would be a big problem.
@Mysticial Should have just done it then. I'll keep that in mind if a similar situation pops up where I can get someone over 200 by serial upvoting them on another site to get the association bonus. Or bountying my association bonus to them on that site. I'm not going to bounty my rep here for something like that since I actually care about this site a little bit.
@Mysticial Yes, I know that's the best way to do it, but I don't know how much I have to spread them out. Would upvoting one person 10 times out of 40 be enough to trigger the script?
In any case I don't think it'd be too hard to get away with it. I'm keeping my eye out for cases like this, but generally I'd rather they gain the rep here honestly than by me messing with some other SE site.
Actually this is something that a dupe account is great for. If I do all the serial upvoting on that account, the worst that happens is that account being suspended or merged with this one.
@Mysticial That's why I'd be using a dupe account for this, and one that's not easy for them to trace. I can use a separate computer, login info, and internet connection that I've never logged in to SE before with on my main account.
On their end it should be impossible to trace, especially if I restrict my activity to sites that I don't currently have an account on with my main account..
Anyway as I said the easiest thing to do is just bounty someone my association bonus on a site I don't care about. That clearly can't trigger any scripts if it's a single action.
@Mysticial Chances are low anyone would check that thoroughly, especially since I'd be using a dupe account.
In any case, the chances that this will ever come into play are low. The situation needs to be very specific. So I'll probably never have to use this method.
At the moment there's only one user who is even remotely close to this working on right now, and he's still visiting the site fairly regularly so I won't do it for now.
The nerd in me says:
Specifically, in the case Naruto, the anime goes out of there way to explain the chakras of the body. They even go as far to explain the flow of energy through the chakras. As such, as they draw energy into their chakras (both from inside and outside their body), debris (r...
@Eric True. But I don't think we have very many totally new to SE users at all. Even most of the people with <100 rep had accounts on some other sites.
@Eric I want it to change too, but the association bonus is really a big advantage for those with accounts elsewhere. Starting with 101 rep makes you way more credible than starting with 1 rep, even though it has almost nothing to do with how much you know about anime.
IMO association bonuses really aren't good for a recreation beta site like us. But there's no way SE is going to get rid of them. Which is why I have no qualms gaming the system to our advantage wherever possible.
@Eric We've gotten several people who were new to SE here, and some of them contributed pretty significantly. However it's to be expected that most of our users will be from the SE network since the chance that someone randomly encounters our site and decides to join is pretty low.
Thinking about it rationally, though, how often is it that you search for the answer to some question, and you find it on some random forum or wiki or Q&A site, and then you think "I should join this site"?
If they keep coming back here from searches, eventually they might decide to join, but that is a slow process and given our size I don't think we're at that level.
I joined MO because one of my professors used it and he told me that I should ask a question there. So I did. Then I started using Math.SE when I decided MO was too strict about research level stuff. But I wouldn't have joined MO if it hadn't been recommended to me by someone I knew and instead I had found it randomly.
Awesome. I'm going to start the Attack on Titan manga this week, since my last anime did not give me any questions. (I'm only in episode 5, but still.)
@LoganM Do you think this answer needs spoiler tags? Or is the question's nature spoiler-warning enough?
@LoganM Okay. I'm going to put a brief "how" in the answer as well, but I'll spoiler-tag that one, since it might be somewhat unexpected to a typical reader.
When Ponta visited the unsmiling cat statue at the beginning of the series, he offered his dakimakura (body pillow) named Barbara-san as a symbol of his worldly desires. Consequently, the statue took them his desires from him, and he turned to a life of helping the poor starving children of Afric...
@LoganM I think I found out why. It's just a forum post, so it's a bad citation, but it says that she says she's from Columbia University because she can't say the word "Massachusetts".
I don't know if I believe that forum post or TVTropes. There isn't any support for it in the manga, at least the English version. For now I think I'll delete the question until I can get a hold of the original to check what the situation is.
I've now watched quite a few anime and I'm still at a loss as to what the term moe represents. Is there an agreed upon definition for it? If a character is moe, what does that mean?
There are a lot of anime which features female tsundere like Shakugan no Shana, Kaichou wa Maid-sama and more. I would like to know anime where there is a male protagonist who is notably a tsundere.
For questions that don't satisfy the 4 criteria, here is how we have decided they will be dealt with:
If it fails #1, close as NARQ because it's hard to tell what is being asked.
If it fails #2, close as not constructive because it's subjective.
If it fails #3, close as NARQ because it isn't re...
The nerd in me says:
Specifically, in the case Naruto, the anime goes out of there way to explain the chakras of the body. They even go as far to explain the flow of energy through the chakras. As such, as they draw energy into their chakras (both from inside and outside their body), debris (r...
