Agreed with @Krazer. The novels are intended to be in the same universe. However, the index anime deviated significantly from the novels while the Railgun anime stuck to them fairly tightly, which results in continuity issues for the anime.
I dunno how SE has things set up, but Google determines how fast and how often it visits based on a number of factors, like popularity, relevance, consistency, the content...
He is Natsu Dragneel, the main protagonist of Fairy Tail
Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel (ナツ・ドラグニル Natsu Doraguniru?) is the primary protagonist of the Fairy Tail series and is the first friend Lucy Heartfilia makes on her journey. He is accompanied by Happy, a flying cat. During Natsu's early ...
@LoganM I think he just wanted to give more detail on the character. I'm not sure it's necessary, but I didn't think it warranted a downvote or anything.
Anyway I also don't understand the number of upvotes on the top answer to that question. It seems to me that it's something almost anyone could answer, even if they've never seen Fairy Tail.
I think it's almost become a tradition to add somewhat relevant but unnecessary images to questions. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I'm pretty sure it affects the vote totals.
@Eric No, I was going to take some random screencaps from just the filler episodes and throw them in. The answer would quintuple in length without adding any useful content.
@Krazer For me I'm fine with pretty much anything short of watching porn using the speakers and projector while I'm supposed to be teaching lab. But I'm trying to follow SE's rules as much as possible.
@Eric The only thing my department cares about is research. As long as I'm not doing things leading to them getting sued, I can do pretty much whatever I want.
@Eric most ppl aren't going to know that Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu stands for Legend of Galactic Heroes. Or that Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi is Spirited Away
@Krazer Presumably we'd use the English titles. All he's doing is taking the top series from MAL. He's also not eliminating sequels, series we already have, etc.
@LoganM Yeah. But we need a list to start from. Something I can eliminate from. I want to make sure this is the list we're looking to work with before I go through the trouble of translating and removing titles.
Toradora! Ao no Exorcist Howl no Ugoku Shiro Claymore FLCL Zero no Tsukaima Mononoke Hime Baccano! Mirai Nikki Byousoku 5 Centimeter Fruits Basket Rosario + Vampire NHK ni Youkoso! Another Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo Blood+ School Days Kimi ni Todoke Air Azumanga Daioh Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Lovely★Complex Love Hina School Rumble Tonari no Totoro Air Gear Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Kanon Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? Wolf's Rain Chrono Crusade Devil May Cry Serial Experiments Lain ChäoS;HEAd Nana
@Eric At some point my subconscious takes over and it actually becomes easier to do this sort of thing. But if I tried to do something that required actual thought I'd probably fail miserably right now.
Ten candles stand burning in a dining room. A strong breeze blows in through an open window and extinguishes two of them. Checking back in on the candles later, you see that one more candle has gone out. To make sure no more flames go out, you shut the window. Assuming the wind doesn't extinguish any more candles, how many candles do you have left in the end?
The answer is, three. The seven candles that manage to stay lit will melt down completely. The only candles that remain in the end are the three that are extinguished by the wind and therefore stay intact.
You are on a game show and there's 3 doors to choose from. Behind one is a sports car, and behind the other 2 are goats. When you choose a door, the host will open a door which is not your door, and which has a goat behind it. After seeing the goat, you are offered a choice: Keep the door you picked originally, or switch doors; which do you choose to optimize your chance of winning?
You are on a game show and there's 3 doors to choose from. Behind door 1 is a sports car, and behind the other 2 are goats. You choose door 2, and the host will opens door 3 which is not your door, and which has a goat behind it. After seeing the goat, you are offered a choice: Keep the door you picked originally, or switch doors?
Here's another candle on for you: There are ten candles. One person starts lighting the candles four minutes after arriving and lights four candles every four minutes. Another person starts blowing out the candles five minutes after arriving and blows out three candles every five minutes.
Assuming the lighter and the blower arrive at the same time and all the candles are out to begin with, how many candles will be lit after 25 minutes?
@Krazer There's a problem. What if there are 7 candles lit, and then they both light and blow in the same minute? Is the result 7 (lighter first) or 8 (blower first)?
@Eric Actually, he only said what these two guys do. There could be a walrus who's spewing flames from his mustache every 43 seconds lighting all the candles for all we know.
@Krazer Sure! The other 43 are all up in Logan's post above. I've just been translating and formatting as [*english name*](wikipedia link). Nothing difficult.
Related: Are there animes/mangas we want more questions for?
The above question was related to what we should do about skewed tags and whether there were specific tags we wanted questions for. But it really didn't gather much in the way of a list; one answer came close, but it is limited, and di...
What parts of my answer in the question, "What are Madara Uchiha's weaknesses?" should be hidden with spoiler markup?
I currently only hid the images I embedded in the answer with spoiler markup. Should I have hidden more or less of my answer with spoiler markup?
I answered the question wit...
This is a list of several anime and manga series which have either not been asked about or need more questions. Feel free to strikeout/remove from this list as questions are asked and tags are created (or add fresh, popular series which are not getting enough attention):
Toradora!
Blue Exorcist...
We also have higher Q/D than Stack Apps, which is another full site which didn't go through Area51. Actually I don't know what Stack Apps is at all tbh.
In any case, Q/D is not an important criterion by itself. What they want to see is continued activity to the level that it's clear the site will survive on it's own. Q/D is a good indicator of that, but 3 or 4 Q/D on a specialized site is enough if all the other stats are strong. However, more Q/D also contributes to the growth of the site, including increasing our traffic, so we should still aim for as much as possible.
That's why a lot of sites graduate when they aren't "excellent" for Q/D, but sites never graduate when they aren't "excellent" in Users.
We should probably look at ways ton increase our active user count...
the problem I see if if we don't answer question fas enough this site will seem slow, but if we answer them too fast we don't give new users a change to answer
@Krazer I think the best approach is to answer obvious questions (answer easy to find via Google) quickly, but leave the harder ones for a little bit. That's what I've been doing at least.
@Krazer Yes, that's true. But the users who can only answer the easier ones aren't as much the kind of users who will be useful long-time contributors.
@Krazer There's not going to be a perfect solution for this, and even if there were in theory there's no way to coordinate it between all of our active users. I also would like the site to be both more active and more inviting to new users, but we have to make some compromises.
We should also think about how we're voting on these things. I've been upvoting nearly every answer that I see which I know is correct so far (especially from new users), as well as most well-written questions. However, I think that leads to very easy answers getting lots of votes while some hard ones barely get any. That doesn't seem like a terribly fair system.
@Krazer Here is the shooter, which is largely through streaming (but still an app), and then there is the 3D Cirque du Soleil web app, done completely in HTML.
Honestly, tho, I think the Mozilla one has more potential. The question is whether or not it'll be capitalized on.
Also @LoganM, the Calcifer/Howl question from today ended up on Google. So we are still being indexed.
Yup! It's a web app, so it should run on any system using Chromium (which would include Chrome OS). I'm amazed it runs so smooth, nothing but the Pixel stands out to me as something that can handle graphics well.
@Eric Not really. They got the Wolf's rain one and the NGE one as well, which were asked sequentially. They also got the Little Busters one. They also got the Hidden Villages one and the kidnapped babies one and the Ubel Blatt one. Everything older than that also seems to be covered, but that's still about a dozen that are missing.
@Eric @Krazer Both are not likely. It missed my Bleach question, which is answered and has lots of views. It got the Little Busters one which has very few views and remains unanswered.
I think the algorithm is supposed to be as close to random browsing as Google can get it, so we shouldn't expect any big patterns for which ones are indexed.
@Eric The crawling is just not fast enough. It probably correlates low traffic to low volume. We are a fairly low traffic site, comparable to a fairly popular blog, but we're high volume.
@Eric Crawling isn't supposed to simulate how people look for things. It's supposed to simulate random web-browsing because Google thinks that's the best way to find lots of sites.
@Eric We could ask at MSO what we can do to get our questions indexed. SE probably has some expertise on this sort of thing. Some of the unindexed questions were specifically seeded to bring in Google traffic for highly searched things. We could ask it on meta here as well but I don't think anyone is likely to know. I couldn't find any MSO questions which had suggestions on this.
I think we're probably getting it worse than most sites since we have lots of questions and pretty low traffic numbers. ELL might have it harder, but ELL questions aren't easily Googleable anyway.
@Eric That could be a one-time mistake. It's well known that Google's crawling algorithms are Monte Carlo, so even if they would normally usually crawl a page they might miss it once in a while.
Anyway it's pointless to speculate on how the algorithm works since MSO very likely has experts who will know how it works and what the best procedure is to make sure our questions get indexed. @Eric Are you going to ask there?
BTW including more images slows down crawling for obvious reasons, and Google only budgets so much time to our site as a whole before moving on. We may want to cut back on unnecessary ones.
He is Natsu Dragneel, the main protagonist of Fairy Tail
Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel (ナツ・ドラグニル Natsu Doraguniru?) is the primary protagonist of the Fairy Tail series and is the first friend Lucy Heartfilia makes on her journey. He is accompanied by Happy, a flying cat. During Natsu's early ...
What parts of my answer in the question, "What are Madara Uchiha's weaknesses?" should be hidden with spoiler markup?
I currently only hid the images I embedded in the answer with spoiler markup. Should I have hidden more or less of my answer with spoiler markup?
I answered the question wit...
