These questions are the most frequently asked and answered questions on Meta.
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List of common abbreviations
I've been actively using a few StackExchange sites for some months now, and it seems common for some users (especially the more experienced ones) to use abbreviations in their questions, answers and ...
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What is the policy for spoilers?
Is there any official policy for mandatory use of the spoilers features? Or is just a courtesy/fully voluntary?
I didn't see anything on the FAQ.
Is there any particular action that should be taken ...
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How do I contribute to the blog?
I've got something really interesting that I'd love to write about for the site blog. How do I go about getting my work there?
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Where should we stand on “Why didn't so-in-so do x-y-z?” type questions?
Tim brings up a good point on:
Queen of Mars is in love with Duck Dogers.
That other's like it such as:
Why didn't Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom?
Why don't muggle-born wizards use ...
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Where can I ask questions that aren't Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange questions?
Thank you for your confidence in our abilities!
But have you read our FAQ?
This site is for questions and answers about science fiction, fantasy and more generally speculative fiction. This is not a ...
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Is there an RSS feed for new questions?
I checked the FAQ and don't see one mentioned. I love to use RSS to keep up to date on when new questions are posted.
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General tagging practices
What are our general tagging practices?
A few current practices are:
Questions about a specific tv show, universe or well-known work: dune, battlestar-galactica
Questions about a specific author, ...
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What are standard internet reference sites for SF?
What are standard internet reference sites for science fiction and fantasy?
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Which mediums can be the basis of questions?
I could not find the information anywhere, so I was wondering whether there is any restriction on the kinds of medium whose works can be discussed here? Books, TV, Movies seem to be fair game but what ...
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What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?
SciFi.SE's identity is still being defined, and as such there's a lot of unresolved confusion wrapped up in dozens of topics about what types of questions are acceptable.
Let's stop creating ...
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Are works that aren't SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)
For example, spy stuff like James Bond, 24, Tom Clancy, have some elements of sci-fi, but are a genre unto themselves. Should we include them in the list of on topic discussions?
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Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?
As an occasional consumer of Halo books/games, I'm often curious about certain plot points or want to ask questions about that game's universe. Would this be the appropriate site for these questions? ...
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What are the characteristics of a great Science Fiction question?
Since this site is in a Beta phase, I thought this would be a useful discussion to help enhance the site: What questions do you upvote and why? and then, by inference, What makes a great question on ...
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What's the process for getting a closed question re-opened?
Does one simply wait passively for those who closed it to come back and re-open it -- assuming they are notified of your edits and comments.
Or is there a way to actively pursue it's "unclosing?"
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How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?
I just noticed this question:
Has anyone heard any rumors about the third book in Scott Sigler's “Infected” series?
While I sympathize with users being curious about release dates, but especially ...
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If you don't want spoilers…
The drama, up to the current point:
A question was asked: Is the "Time War" introduced only in "new" Doctor Who?
My (now-deleted) reply answered the question, and cited two Wikipedia pages as the ...
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Are questions that try to rationalize technobabble on-topic here?
How can you have a point of origin with only one coordinate? is a good example, and I suspect we'll see many questions asking, say, how is it possible that Tom Paris got to Warp 10 in Voyager when ...
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Are list questions allowed?
This just started, but there already seems to be a lot of questions that essentially boil down to "Please list stories that X". These questions cannot have a definitive answer, and sometimes you can ...
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Are Google-able questions appropriate?
I know it's only the first day, but plenty of the questions I've seen so far appear to be easily answered by doing a simple search.
"What author wrote Title?", "What actor played Character?", and ...
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Are book / movie / TV series identification questions allowed?
If there are books that I read a long time ago that I'd like to re-read but I've forgotten the author and/or title, may I post a question asking if other users can identify it? The same for movies or ...
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Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?
Since most of the questions here are going to be about films, television series and novels, perhaps it would be a good idea to mark spoiler questions with [Spoiler], or a spoiler tag?
