Timeline for How religious should I be about tagging questions to include the platform of the game?
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| Apr 17, 2011 at 2:13 | comment | added | Dave DuPlantis | Maybe the topic is broad, but each platform has so much in common with its siblings that there would be a ton of duplication among the sites ... there will likely be quite a few game-specific questions that would end up on the individual sites (and what would you call them? Does ps3.SE get questions about the PS2 and PSP?). Besides, I suspect that the vast majority of gamers play on multiple platforms ... granted this will skew high, but only 2 of 20 play on only 1 platform. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:02 | comment | added | tzenes | @Grace I think that's kind of my point. It doesn't help. This is a philosophical difference not a practical one. Philosophically consoles are different than PCs. In reality, we're not only the same community, but the overlap (in terms of questions) is much larger than the difference. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:37 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @tzenes I don't actually think that helps too much - splitting PC and Console fixes barely anything because the majority of cross platform stuff is between different consoles, not between console and PC. If we have to break up by each console type, then it would be far too split up and way too much to coordinate due to the lack of all that much material that is significantly different across the platforms. And, as it were, this problem only shows up because of cross-platform stuff - splitting into platform sites just warrants duplication and a different kind of problem. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:36 | comment | added | tzenes | In fact, pc and xbox probably have more community overlap than xbox and playstation... | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:34 | comment | added | tzenes | I think @Jeff is right in theory (ideally you'd want a console and a pcgaming site), unfortunately when it comes to community building that theory kind of gets flipped on its head. While it makes sense to break up consoles and pcs (the way SE breaks up Apple and Ubuntu), they share the same community, and dividing that community isn't in the best interest of community building; you don't want to split a single community into two communities below critical mass. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 11:17 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Jeff While gaming has a wide breadth for subject matter, this is not really a fault of the site topic. Rather, we are leveraging the system itself by using console tags for cross-platform situations, because at that point it's not actually data that categorizes the question. Rather, it categorizes a subject of the question. It's done for convenience, not for necessity. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 4:40 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | this is also an indication that your site topic is too broad, FYI | |
| Feb 7, 2011 at 19:50 | comment | added | Shaun | Considering the tag limit of 5 (about which I did not know), I agree with you on the "tagging cross-platform games" part of this question. | |
| Feb 7, 2011 at 19:33 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Shaun As terribly horrid as that sounds... yes. Personally, my stance is to be rid of them on cross-platform - I fully sympathize with the intent and it would be an excellent tool, but it's not currently feasible. I think that since we're nearing elections, though, we can live another week before we decide to come down hard on this. Because this is something that we probably will need to come down hard on. | |
| Feb 7, 2011 at 19:29 | comment | added | Shaun | In other words, you'd recommend I simply apply some ruleset to new questions and not bother trying to clean up any older questions I happen to visit? | |
| Feb 7, 2011 at 19:25 | history | answered | Grace NoteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |