Unanswered Questions
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Futurama Week + Q&A Event on July 11th!
SciFi.SE has partnered with Comedy Central to promote Futurama's upcoming season. We're declaring Futurama the topic of the week for the next week and, after that, we're launching a special Futurama ...
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Can we add a URL field to “General Reference” VTC reason?
Similarly to how "Duplicate Q" VTC reason requests you to enter the URL of a duplicate question, can we also have a URL be requested (or even required) when voting a question as a general reference?
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Scifi Stack Exchange is now “Science Fiction & Fantasy”
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This site has been officially renamed "Science Fiction and Fantasy". While both subjects were generally considered on topic, the fantasy genre is now explicitly integrated into this ...
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Deleted answers hard to identify
Deleted answers to questions are very difficult to tell apart from regular answers - the color difference is very small and easy to miss.
Color code is #F4EAEA, i think something slightly darker like ...
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Can we make read-only mode text more visible?
Today it seemed many (possibly all) of the stack exchange sites were put into a read only mode. I first noticed this on stackoverflow
and the message definitely caught my attention. Thinking that ...
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Why was the Sifo-Dyas question closed as general reference?
Who was Sifo-Dyas? was closed as general reference. The general reference here seems to be the Star Wars Wiki page. Hmm, ok, but the asker evidently expected an answer relating to the movies, not the ...
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Can the “this question is closed” text include a pointer to chat?
Some of the questions that have been closed lately are closed because they're off-topic even though they're still relevant to sci-fi/fantasy fans such as ourselves. For these sorts of 'good ...
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Answer the Unanswered Questions
Science Fiction and Fantasy's answer rate is at 95% (as shown here) which may sound high, but that ranks us 45th out of 81 sites. Come on! We can do better than that!
I propose that from February 1st ...
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Advertising on Amazon Kindle
For some reason today, I had a thought that might be interesting. Would it be worth it to advertize this site on the Special Offers Amazon Kindle? I did a bit of poking around, and found a guide to ...
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How should I review First Posts on topics I am completely unfamiliar with?
I sometimes get first-time posts in the review queue that I cannot really judge, since I have no knowledge of the universe whatsoever (e.g. "Does this question even make sense?" / "Does this answer ...
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Side-by-side Markdown edit compare is unreadable
On the revisions page for a post here on the Meta site, if you select the 'side-by-side markdown' option to see the markdown of the changes, you get extremely low-contrast text for the changed ...
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Title for updated favorited question unreadable
On the Favorites tab of the User Profile screen, the title of an updated question becomes unreadable as it blends in with the background.
Once clicked through, the Title and background colors ...
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Can the answer highlighting animation be changed?
This is a special topic for the designer :P
Is moderator voting anonymous?
The highlighting of the question is going from light yellow to white. It's not readable on SciFi as the background is dark, ...
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Why is my bold text not quite bold in Chrome, OSX?
Mac OSX, 10.7.4. Running Chrome.
As you can see, my bold text is... not very bold. There is a little difference though.
Happens to me in SciFi.SE only. SO is fine.
I tested with Safari, and it ...
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Nominate questions for re-open
Now that a consensus is that there shouldn't be any closure of questions that are marked general reference, please nominate your favorite questions for re-open.
If you have sufficient privileges, ...
