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What should we do with a story-identification question where the asking user has been deleted?
On the question I am looking for the author of a trilogy the OP user13147 seems to be deleted.
So there is no hope to identify this "Sci-Fi trilogy" as the user cannot respond.
How should we handle ...
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Do “story-id” questions actually bring in new users that stick around?
The story-identification questions do an excellent job as a way to bring in new users, which is important for us to continue to function as a community. While the core regular users are important, ...
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Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify this story questions?
Is there any way to research an identify this story question? We have 391 unanswered questions and almost a third of them are story id questions. I wouldn't mind putting in the research effort, but I ...
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Can I ask a story-identification question about a book I didn't read?
During my quest to find new books to read, I stumbled upon an interesting young adult fantasy series but I forgot to bookmark the page or save that info somewhere.
However, the series had a very long ...
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Should [story-identification] Qs with correct answer be post-tagged with author's tag? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we tag story identification questions with the name of the author?
@MajorStackings asked in chat:
Quick question: Once a story identification question gets ...
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Checklist for story identification
Another interesting story identification question has been added but I think it is missing plenty of details. Would it help to have a checklist of items for people adding identification questions, ...
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Should movie-identification be a synonym of story-identification?
I was looking through the tags on here a d noticed that, as far as I found, there are three identification tags: story-identification, character-identification, and movie-identification. I got to ...
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Are story identification questions still appropriate?
Despite Jeff's latest SE Blog post, I think story ID questions should still be ok here.
I think there can be good and bad story ID questions, and while the bad ones can fall into the categories Jeff ...
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Is it good that Story Identification questions are so well rewarded?
NOTE: Due to the fact that people seem to be completely mis-reading this question, I'll quote the last paragraph up front:
Just to be clear, I'm not against the concept of story identification ...
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Should we tag story identification questions with the name of the author?
If an identification question has an accepted answer, it would make sense to tag it with the authors name. Or should we not tag it and leave it as a sort of trivia question for others?
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Rename the story-identification tag?
All identification questions are currently lumped under one tag: story-identification.
Would it make more sense to separate out the different media and have identify-this-story, identify-this-movie, ...
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Appropriateness of seeding an identification question
I was about to ask a TV series identification question that I'd had for years. I tried one last bout of googling, and after varying keywords quite a bit, I found a candidate title, which didn't look ...
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Extra answers after an identification question has been correctly answered
Suppose a story identification question (such as this one) has been satisfactorily answered.
Is it a good idea to propose another very good match for the question?
Should the question be treated as ...
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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 ...
