Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Why can't I undo my vote on comment?
I acidentally up-voted a comment on my question. But I'm unable to undo it. When I touch the red triangle nothing happens. Is it a bug or there's a reason?
I tried on other comments and I was able to ...
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Why isn't there an ethics tag [duplicate]
Why is there no ethics tag?
Why doesn't anyone create one?
For instance, it could be used to discuss ethics in movies, as well as the ethics of movie making.
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Tag merge & synonym request: [guardians-of-the-galaxy-*] → [guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol.-*]
According to our current tagging policy, as agreed by the community in the meta FAQ post, What's the policy on abbreviating titles of Movies & TV Shows?
If the original title fits into the limit, ...
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How to add more than one image in the question body in one attempt?
I have problem inserting more than one image. Every time I try, it requires me to upload one photo at a time.
Can I mark more than one image from my gallery when trying to upload pictures (so that I ...
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Why are tags only visible at the main page when we are signed-out?
I wasn't paying attention to this till now.
When signed in there are no suggested tags a the top of the page:
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When not signed in I get a list of tags to "explore":
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Why not having the ...
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Imgur TOS change on May 15, 2023 may result in the loss of many media files
Imgur announced new Terms of Service that will go into effect on May 15, 2023, with one of the changes being:
removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account
Related ...
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Specifically for this site, how should the "no longer needed" comment flag be used?
Inspired by events in this question: Why didn't the Ex-Wife work?
The purpose of a comment in Stack Exchange as I understand is to improve a question as given here:
Comments are for, and should ...
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Why wasn't bounty awarded for this question?
According to bounty description here, following rules apply for if bounty is not awarded explicitly.
Bounty period of 7 days and 24 hours grace period should had ended.
Answer should be created after ...
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Please provide some direction about how much more focused this needs to be
I've made several edits to this question trying to focus it for this site. But rather than guessing what is focused enough, could you please tell me how focused it needs to be? Even having some ...
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Merge [top-gun-2] and [top-gun-maverick]?
Can the tags top-gun-2 and top-gun-maverick be merged? Or maybe delete top-gun-2 and retag the question (s)?
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The tag "topgun-maverick" should be corrected to "top-gun-maverick"
Can someone please fix the tag topgun-maverick to the correct spelling "top-gun-maverick"?
I cannot do it because when I try to replace the wrong tag with the right tag, the system refuses ...
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Why was my flag to suggest a revision declined but then later the revision was done?
See (Avengers spoilers) here re my meta question How would peer review happen for meta spoiler answers?:
iandotkelly spoils an Avengers movie when trying to give an answer with examples of generic ...
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Is it possible to object to (and revert) an edit that was made to my question?
A user has made edits to my question which I find objectionable. It's edit #3 here.
The changes:
replace "filmmakers" with "film makers"
replace "&" with "and&...
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Should I post this question about a chemistry related joke in Louie on this site?
This question https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/162688/108725was closed but Buck Thorn, a mod, commented that maybe I should try posting it on Movies & TV, after editing it suitably.
He said,&...
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Where to ask an identification question on a series [duplicate]
I have asked an identification question about an episode in the "Monk" series, but I was told this is off-topic on "Movies and TV". OK.
But it must be on-topic somewhere else, ...
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Could someone please create an "Eternals" tag? [duplicate]
A new (2021) Marvel movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film)
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How many questions have more than 1 million views on this site?
I would like to know that are there any questions with more than 1 million views on this site(the main movies site and not meta), if yes how many?
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Any Mods watching this?
It's been flagged several times already. This guy is clearly a troll, his account needs to be dumped.
Why isn't Angelo Pappas doing his job?
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How to resize pictures in questions and answers?
I have answered a question recently and I've put two pictures in my answer. But the problem is that one of them is small and the another one is so big.
I want to resize the big one in my answer to ...
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Why are identification questions not allowed here, but allowed on the Science Fiction & Fantasy site?
I found that the Science Fiction & Fantasy site indeed allows such questions.
What is the difference between the topics of these two sites that caused these different decisions?
Or is it just that ...
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Why was voting corrected on my questions?
I posted 3 questions in a series recently, one of which got closed which is not a problem. But suddenly I got a -30 rep change for "voting corrected".
For two of the questions I got 1 upvote ...
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Question closed for not being focused enough
This question seems to have many sub-questions, but indeed they are not sub-questions, they are the reasons why this question was asked.
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WHY? Why are you deleting my posts?
Why is my question being deleted? I am simply just asking a question about a movie I am trying to watch. All I am ASKING is what is this movie?
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Why was this realism question marked as closed?
Why was this... Do US private schools ask Chinese students to get referral letters from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association to join them?
closed?
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Close Vote invalidated?
I recently saw this question Why didn't Lisa Simpson become an atheist? which, to my mind, seemed to be asking for opinions and I voted to close as such.
I understand that others might disagree as to ...
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Tag is too long
Found a question about a movie called I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
When I tried to edit the question to include movie name, I see an error saying movie title exceeded the maximum ...
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Why are questions about locating or purchasing movie or TV content not allowed?
I find that locating or purchasing movie or TV content is not allowed. Why is that? Searching in Google with this query site:movies.meta.stackexchange.com locating or purchasing movie or TV content ...
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How does an undelete vote work?
I guess we've all suffered the irritation of a question being deleted by the author, right at the point you were about to hit the Post button on an answer you'd just worked on.
Having had that just ...
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Is asking for screen shots allowed?
I am a crossover enthusiast and try to verify crossovers as much as possible. Sometimes that entails asking for help finding screen shots from films and television series. Is that allowed here if one ...
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Is asking about a movie on topic?
I have read about a movie on Wikipedia but googling and looking at IMDB no result at all (it is based on a book and I find a lot of results about the book). Would it be on topic to ask if anyone knows ...
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Why is my answer on this question deleted?
How does this guy eat?
Napoleon, also closed one of my questions for being "lack of details"! but it was deleted because it was duplicated. Is it a good reason to close a question because of being ...
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Can question about why a film is critically praised or not be asked? - More specific question
This is the more specific version of Can question about why a film is critically praised or not?
Although critical point is opinon from the critic, but:
(1) The question is not asking for answerer'...
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Can question about why a film is critically praised or not?
For example, a film doesn't make sense and get high critical point but low user point on rottentomatoes, can I ask why?
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Question suddenly closed
I asked this question about three years ago, and the answer helped me understand the scene better, as this comment also illustrates. The question has garnered 16 upvotes in the meantime.
Today, the ...
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Where to find deleted questions?
Even this existing question doesn't give a definite answer about: If my question gets downvoted and deleted, why there are no questions in "deleted recent questions" in my profile? It displays "No ...
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Can this old ID question of mine get migrated to SciFi.SE, please?
About three years ago, when I first joined, I asked this ID question: Cartoon in which Donald Duck tries to stop another duck from committing suicide. When ID questions were made off-topic in early ...
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Rename [once-upon-time-in-america]
Can the tag once-upon-time-in-america be renamed to once-upon-a-time-in-america, which is its real name? The existing name is clearly an artifact of the old 25 character max tag length.
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Is there a website to ask technical questions about the art of cinematography?
I've just created an account on this website. After having quickly looked at the main tags, the on-topic page and some of the most upvoted questions, apparently, this website does not cover the ...
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Can someone please correct the tag "jojorabbit" to "jojo-rabbit"?
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jojorabbit is incorrect, it should be jojo-rabbit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jojo_Rabbit ), but when I enter that one it is rejected as "too ...
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What does "bumped by Community" mean?
Recently I saw in a question that was bumped to the homepage by user Community. It has a small description below which states
This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has ...
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REQ: Merging "criminal-intent" into "law-and-order-criminal-intent" tag
Can someone please merge https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/criminal-intent and https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law-and-order-criminal-intent ? I suppose the first one ...
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How to access "help" for the M&TV Meta site (if there is one)?
"Help" is critical for people to know whether their questions are appropriate for a particular site - but it seems difficult to find the help for the M&TV Meta site.
Do we even have help ...
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Asking old or obscure TV and movie questions
I am not American, so I was brought up with a lot of TV shows and movies that most people on this forum would not have heard of. So my question is: can such questions have any point?
For instance ...
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Is it possible to recover lost rep from someone else getting on my account and giving it away?
Back in May/June of last year someone (ex. room mate) got on my account and gave away most all of my reputation in the form of bounties... they did this for Movies & TV, Biology and Science ...
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Migrate a question
I found a question that I think will be better suited on either ELL or ELU. But when I try to flag the question using This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network, All I can see ...
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Can a person earn Peer Pressure badge more than once?
Is a person eligible to earn the badge peer pressure more than once, if he deletes more than one question with score less than -3?
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Can I ask what a movie is based on scene fragments?
I'm trying to track down a sci-fi movie that I saw as a kid but I only remember a few bits and pieces (no title, no actors). I wanted to post this as a question to the main Movies & TV QA but I ...
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Suspended accounts - different duration of penalty
I admit that this is a matter of curiosity only.
I have seen users that are suspended for different periods of time which will vary (greatly) from one user to the next.
As a matter of avoiding such ...
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How is this question asked by "Google"?
Regarding this question, it says it was asked by "Google". I suppose a user could create an account with that name (but why? And would that not be on an obvious black list of valid usernames?) but it'...
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Replacing the "millionaire" tag with "who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire"
Can someone please link https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/millionaire and https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire ?
Maybe millionaire should be ...
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