Unanswered Questions
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Announcing the April – May 2025 topic challenge: Bessie Head
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,
it is today time to announce the ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Has anyone done a thorough check of the [symbolism] tag's usage? Should we?
At the time of writing, this site's 11th largest tag (with over 200 questions) is symbolism. This is way larger than, say, allusions with 71 questions or allegory with 15 questions. Stay tuned to ...
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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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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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Why do we have to edit at least 6 characters?
Very recently, I clicked the edit button on a question.
It had a misspelling of just one letter.
But after I clicked the save my edit button, an error message popped up saying the edit should at least ...
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Can questions about a movie/TV show/video be on-topic? If so, which ones?
We had a recent question about a series of YouTube videos. The question boiled down to "this line seemed to reference something that was said in a previous video, what is it referring to?"
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023
Literature Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on March 28, as your “graduation” election!
The timeline:
On March 21, we'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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"Scholarly entry-point" questions should be on-topic, and not considered recommendations
LitSE considers recommendation questions off topic. This seems pretty sensible to me; I imagine they generate a lot of vague discussion that doesn't suit a question-answer site.
I propose that ...
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Do we want the site statistics on the home page back?
Until the day we graduated (16 December) we had a small table with site statistics on the home page. This has always been a feature specific to beta sites, so it was removed after we graduated. In my ...
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Do we want video embedding to be enabled on Literature?
Some Stack Exchange sites have video embedding turned on, which means that a Youtube link can be simply pasted into a post as plaintext and it will automatically render as an inline box within which ...
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Linking related [identification-request] questions
Shouldn't there be a way to link identification-request questions that are essentially asking for the same title even though the OP might be mistaken of the details when the question was asked?
They ...
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Please take the time to tailor-write comments for new users' questions
I saw this today:
The second comment there is attributed to the Community user, which is a feature from the last review queue update. And... it's significantly less useful than the first one.* While ...
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