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Resignation notice
When efforts arise to formalize or corporatize a community, there's often understandable concern that the effort could destroy the very community it seeks to grow. [...] Any effort to grow will fail ...
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I no longer feel safe moderating this site
It's been just over five years since I joined the Stack Exchange network. I was awarded my fifth Yearling badge, over at Science Fiction & Fantasy, around a week ago. I became interested in the ...
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Accepting nominations — Who should moderate this site? [duplicate]
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need ...
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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here! [duplicate]
A few days ago, I asked about starting up reading challenges, with a particular goal in mind. Many of our questions are about the same authors, the same stories, the same genres, the same cultures. ...
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Should graphic novels be on topic?
Assuming the question isn't breaking any other rules, should questions about graphic novels/comic books be on-topic for this site?
On one hand, comic-books are books just like any other books. On the ...
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What do we think about story identification?
I guess it's appropriate to start with the elephant in the room - story identification questions. Should they be on-topic here?
In particular, what can we learn from the previous iteration of the ...
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Who are the experts? Not us. We've grown a philosophical bezoar - let's work this through!
Buckle up, this is gonna be a journey.
We're pretty early into the site's existence. Things are rolling along nicely. We're hanging around a whopping 45 questions a day, and we've got the rocky ...
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Our site can be cold, unforgiving, and unapproachable. We're driving people away. What should we do about it?
This is shaping up to be a bit more of a rant than I meant it, but this is a serious problem, and I'm growing increasingly frustrated. I feel this is something we need to explore.
A good community is ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Congratulations Literature.SE!
If you haven't already heard, Literature is moving on to public beta! We've built a great community here, avoided the mistakes of the last Literature site, and sparked useful discussions about the ...
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Should we allow questions about religious texts?
Science-Fiction & Fantasy has a policy of excluding all religious texts. This makes sense because SFF is about fiction, and stating that a particular religious text is fictional is pretty ...
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What are some good (legal) resources for finding the text of books?
Many good answers on this site are going to require quoting passages of the text of a novel, poem, play, or other piece of literature. Thus, knowing where to find such passages is going to be very ...
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Literature is graduating on December 16th, 2021!
All of your hard work has paid off: We're officially graduating!
The Community Managers have confirmed that as part of their ongoing work on site lifecycles, as of December 16, 2021, Literature.SE ...
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What should our main site chatroom be called?
Every Stack Exchange site has at least one chatroom associated to it. The primary chatroom for the site usually has an interesting name which is somehow evocative of the topic of that site: for ...
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Is literary analysis on-topic?
Should questions like "what does the author mean by saying XX?" or "what is the significance of YY item in this context" be on-topic?
On one hand, they can facilitate opinion-based discussion (and ...
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