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Can/should tv.stackexchange.com redirect to this site?
Yes, this should definitely be done for various reasons:
There is precedent for this on other SE sites, from Science Fiction & Fantasy, over Unix & Linux, to Gardening & Landscaping.
We ...
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Changing tags from [the-fairly-oddparents] to [the-fairly-odd-parents]
It sort of is, and sort of isn't. Officially, the show's name is The Fairly OddParents, with the two words squished together into a single compound word. This makes more sense than it appears to - it'...
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Improving the design of the top banner
Okay, first of all, let's look at the current iteration and its problems:
It's too dark. It deviates significantly from our site's signature bright orange-red as devised in the original design ...
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We need dynamic titles
Sorry, but this is a really bad solution to a non-existent problem, but fortunately this isn't anything that's even practically possible to get implemented by SE for our little site anyway.
First of ...
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Feature for new users asking ID this movie questions
I haven't got time to write a fully detailed response to this, but here are some thoughts.
We all know that some good detailed ID questions still get VTCs. I don't know who casts these votes, so can'...
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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions
While we're at the task of cleaning up the identify tags (as much as possible) it might be worth also trying to improve identify-this-actor. It's not nearly the crisis that identify-this-movie is, but ...
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Explain down votes
No
Firstly, we don't have to explain why we downvote... the reason is right there when you hover over the downvote arrow.
This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.
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Could we have a leaderboard saying who got the most reputation in a week on the main questions page? or even monthly? top 10 best reputation earners?
We already do. If you go to the Users Page, the list is sorted by reputation. You can show it for:
Week
Month
Quarter
Year, or
All time
See the image below for what it looks like, it defaults to ...
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Can/should tv.stackexchange.com redirect to this site?
Adam added https://tv.stackexchange.com/ as an alias for https://movies.stackexchange.com/. I don't think there's much reason to add every synonym for those words, but it definitely makes sense to ...
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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions
I think it should be enhanced a bit to something like:
Don't forget to include the following in your question:
The original language of the film (English, French, Spanish, etc.)
The ...
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Is this a possible legal countermeasure for adding movie images to posts?
US copyright law's Fair Use doesn't require attribution. Nor does it require a disclaimer stating a piece of copyrighted work is being used under Fair Use. The use itself says that, in the context of ...
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Change Off-Topic -> Recommendation text
After the community seems to deem this a good idea and noone expressed their reservations in actual answers, we went through with this suggestion and adapted the close-reason accordingly.
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MOVIES & TV community name need to be CAPS in communities drop down list?
No.
The all caps on the M&TV site makes sense, as the logo is in all caps.
The navigation is not specific to the site you're on, it's uniform to the Stack Exchange network's overall styling.
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Can we increase the tag length limit?
This has finally reached the whole network and the new maximum tag length is 35 characters.
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Can a user propose a new badge?
Badges are shared through the entire StackExchange system. The best place to ask this is on the StackExchange Meta.
Bounty related badges have already been suggested, in 2009, so I wouldn't suggest ...
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ID Questions - better info in the Help pages
"Trivia" questions are not off-topic, and only questions that ask to identify movies and TV shows (and episodes) are considered off-topic.
For example: questions like “I remember [insert ...
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"Identify-this" tagged questions
Most ID questions do NOT have the level of detail we ask for.... about 2/3 that DON'T.
Let's look at the guidance...
Plot details of any scenes you remember
Descriptions of any characters or ...
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Please Improve Youtube URL Parsing
All sounds good; fixed in code - available after the next deploy (when the "rev" at the bottom of the screen is higher than "2016.3.23.3373")
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How to properly close recommendation questions?
Tom Cody's suggested wording for a new off-topic reason seems to do the trick. However, I'd recommend swapping out the "current events" reason:
Close reason Closed Closed% of total
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I'd like to see the up- and down-votes of my posts
The Established user privilege is standardized throughout the stack exchange network. For whatever reason, SE believes that you should have 1000 rep on a site to see any Up/Down vote stats. It's not a ...
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Dark mode for Movies & TV?
Many sites have asked for this:
Electrical Engineering
Stack Overflow en español
Chinese Language
and of course the Meta Stack Exchange post Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites, so I'm going to ...
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Why are tags only visible at the main page when we are signed-out?
Because when you are signed in, the application already knows what tags you are interested in, or assumes you are somewhat familiar with the site. When you are signed out, it has no idea who you are, ...
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'Newest questions' without on-hold or duplicate filter?
For things like this you can use the very feature-rich and nicely documented search features that every SE site has. If you visit the search page (for example by typing in something in the search box ...
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what if we use seperate tag for low quality questions?
I am against such tags; they would not help, and be of any practical use.
Your proposing new tags to help more experienced users fix up poor questions; but the tags don't actually facilitate this ...
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Do you think this title needs change?
First of all, while not particularly off-topic on this per-site meta, such discussions about the broader workings of the SE framework usually fare better on the main meta site.
That being said, I ...
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How to add more than one image in the question body in one attempt?
On the support part:
You can’t upload more than one image at a time. SE’s image uploader has never supported adding batch images.
On the feature-request:
If you want to request this feature, I think ...
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Should a link to the FAQ post for list of external sites be added to the identification close reason?
As the guy who (AFAICT) links to that meta post the most frequently, I'd been considering proposing this exact thing myself. IMHO, there's not much point in having that list if we're not going to ...
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Identification Question Cleanup: Deleting old questions
Ok, this is done!
I've deleted a grand total of 3,726 questions. The list is here — if you see something that was deleted but shouldn't have been, or something that wasn't but should have been, lemme ...
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Identification Question Cleanup: Closing existing questions
As Napoleon mentioned on the main post, this was completed on 2018-01-20.
Due to the fact that the process involves employee intervention, the questions appear as closed by me, and locked by Shog9 (...
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