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Can we get a Close reason to move to Literature?

This question, YA fiction book, HELP, if cleaned up, sounds like it could fit on Literature's Identification Request tag. Could we make that an official option? Not like it'll take up much space since ...
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Exclusion Keywords for filter subscription email notifications?

I have a filter subscription notification set up at https://stackexchange.com/filters to get daily emails for new story-identification posts, but I would like to exclude any posts on certain tags/...
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Is there anywhere I can change the color theme of the scifi.se site?

Recently (Last month or two?) on the SF&F SE the font of the tags changed to what appears to be bold black. For me with my old eyes, their close proximity to the light blue font of the questions ...
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Should we have a sticky listing FAQ-ID questions?

Suggestion - Some story ID questions get asked over and over again. Maybe we should have a sticky listing the most frequent ones. The list would include: The Gold at the Starbow's End/ aka Starburst ...
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Now that ISFDB has (finally) turned on https, can we edit all relevant links in one fell swoop?

ISFDB, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, is used in a lot of answers on this stack. It was notorious for not facilitating https. That has now been fixed, if I interpret this related FAQ ...
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Can we have meta tags?

Tags on this site are related with the SFF works mentioned in the question. I propose meta tags which aren’t related with the material, but serves the site. We can have 18+ tag to restrict access to ...
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Allow text formatting as small caps

I'm specifically thinking of the discworld series, where the character of Death always speaks using small caps. It may come up in other works too. Posts seeking to accurately quote a passage of Death'...
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Should there be a higher reputation bonus for editing?

When you edit and your edits are accepted, you get (to my knowledge) 2 reputation. That's not a whole lot. Now, obviously, the most reputation comes from bounties, answers, and questions, but shouldn'...
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Can the Community user comment suggesting adding code/documentation be updated to fit SFF?

An answer to this question contains the following comment by the automated Community "user": Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation ...
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Can we have Time Lord hat?

Winter Bash 2020 doesn't have a science fiction related hat. The last hat Propel Thyself looks like a Physics hat unless you consider Doremon science fiction. Can we have a Time Lord hat? Or, is this ...
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Could we allow sponsored tags?

Over on Meta Stack Exchange, another debate is brewing on the usefulness of non-Stack Overflow sites to the company, specifically bringing up profitability. Could this site allow tag sponsorships a ...
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Please, add icons to famous tags

If you go to Stack Overflow and see the list of popular tags, you'll find icons on some tags like Android, Angular etc. We'll also like such icons. Star Trek can have its icon because it has one. ...
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Tag warning for story-identification

So I read this Server Fault meta post, which says how to request tag warnings: Open a new meta question under the tag tag-warnings with the proposed text and the tag to which it should be applied. ...
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Should the help center explicitly define "fantasy"?

This is not about this site's scope. I'm asking this because two questions a week apart seemed to share the same misconception about what "fantasy" was, seeming to take the general sense of the word ...
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Make it so that comments with "thanks" or similar words aren't automatically deleted

If I flag a comment such as "Thanks, that is the answer to my question" with "No longer needed", it will be deleted automatically without any mods looking at it. However, this could be really harmful ...
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