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Announcing the May–June 2024 topic challenge: Cheese
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2024
Here, rather late, is the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily ...
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What is the Literature SE policy for self-answered questions?
I had some strong rejection to this question and self-answer of mine:
I am looking for a book from a spanish academic researcher on the history of paper (or of books)
The answer may look easy, but I ...
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Announcing the April–May 2024 topic challenge: Carlo Goldoni
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What's your favorite book?
Most people, upon confessing that they love books, are immediately met with that question about what their favorite book is. We recently shared our answers to it in chat; turns out, most of the ...
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Is downvoting good? Should it be discouraged?
Downvoting is a feature provided by the forum (or whatever you want to call this place). I didn't know what its inventor's idea on that so I can only guess that his intention may be just to let people ...
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Announcing the March – April 2024 topic challenge: Uyghur literature
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and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
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Can we reorder the help topics?
The first thing a user sees in our help center is What types of questions should I avoid asking? This seems rather unwelcoming. Could the order of the pinned items be changed so that the top link is ...
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Announcing the February – March 2024 topic challenge: Katja Kettu
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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How many actual authors have we had posting on Literature SE?
I recall a few occasions that actual authors of works asked about here have shown up and created accounts to answer questions about their own stories. It's an awesome feeling for the site whenever ...
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Does Literature [our site] have a policy on AI-generated content?
With a featured post on Main Meta allowing sites to request warning banners about AI-generated content, I was wondering if Literature would implement that feature. However, I noticed a lack of posts ...
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Creating an [authorship] tag?
Yesterday, @verbose created a new tag authorship for the question What is the evidence that Jonathan Swift wrote "The Grand Mystery"? and @CDR added it to the old question What evidence do ...
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Announcing the January – February 2024 topic challenge: Muhammad Iqbal
Apologies, once again, for the late announcement of an event that should have already started! We really should start getting these back on time ...
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Top (New) Users in Yearly Leagues
Every year, the users of Literature Stack Exchange can be ranked by their reputation earned in that year, and the yearly leagues are recorded at stackexchange.com/leagues, including each user's rise ...
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