More pitching (scifi.stackexchange.com)

The elevator pitch discussion died down, but I’ve been thinking about this over the last few weeks.  As I noted earlier, I’m not a great pitcher, but perhaps I can get something good enough together that others can then work on. DVD extras meets user generated content. I like the idea of starting the pitch [...]

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Figuring FAQ (scifi.stackexchange.com)

The scifi.stackexchange.com community (or more accurately, the meta.scifi.stackexchange.com community) is still trying to figure out what’s on-topic, even though it doesn’t appear that the meta consensus directly influences the actual reality of the site. When I last left the search for an elevator pitch, I wondered whether the FAQs of the other (launched) sites would [...]

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Pitching (scifi.stackexchange.com)

There are currently 15 StackExchange sites that have launched (i.e. made it past beta), excluding the original trilogy. The “elevator pitch” questions on their meta sites are: Apple Unix and Linux Programmers Theoretical Computer Science English Language and Usage LaTeX Statistical Analysis Photographers Mathematics Game Development Food & Cooking Pro Webmasters Ubuntu Gaming Web Applications [...]

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Dealing with recommendations (scifi.stackexchange.com)

One of the problems that scifi.stackexchange.com faces that isn’t unique to that site is “recommendation” questions. These are a specific type of list question (which are generally ill-suited to the sites), where each answer offers one possible recommendation, and the votes cast are not just “that’s a good answer” or “that’s a bad answer”, but [...]

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