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Screenshot of the Week #104 - Explosions! [Submissions Closed, Vote Now!]
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Hello and welcome to the 104th edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
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Can you vote for multiple posts on Screenshot of the Week?
Are you allowed to vote for more than one post on Screenshot of the Week, or do you have to choose one?
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What happens if there is a tie for Screenshot of the Week?
I'm not sure if this has happened before, but I'd like to know what happens if two answers have an equal amount of upvotes when the voting period ends. Also, I'm curious how this affects the widget on ...
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Screenshot of the Week #103
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Screenshot of the Week #102 - Halloween
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Is the automatic deletion of "abandoned" questions a good thing?
When reviewing my profile, I noticed I have around 30 seemingly on-topic questions with a neutral score that had been deleted by the Community user. Reviewing the deleted questions FAQ, I realized ...
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How do OP cards exist in meta but not in main site?
When I asked this question I didn't have an OP card and my comment also didn't have it:
But in meta posts like this the OP cards exist:
In comments:
Why is there this difference between our meta ...
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Screenshot of the Week #101
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How should we tag questions about the 2023 and 1992 Mortal Kombat 1s?
A new Mortal Kombat game, confusingly titled "Mortal Kombat 1" (2023), is out. It sort of shares the same name as the first Mortal Kombat from 1992, which is also referred to as "Mortal ...
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Should the [counter-strike-global-offensive] tag be merged into [counter-strike-2]?
We have two tags right now:
counter-strike-global-offensive
counter-strike-2
Counter Strike 2 is actually the new name/replacement of Counter Strike: Global Offensive (i.e. Steam does not have "...
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Improve Resident Evil's tags
Recently I posted a question about the Resident Evil 1 Remake, but I got a bit confused about which tag to use. Initially I've used resident-evil, but later I realize that I should use resident-evil-...
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Screenshot of the Week #100: Celebration edition!
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Is it acceptable to put a video of a bug in my post to illustrate it?
A few days ago I asked the question Buildings flashing during the day in Watch Dogs, and perhaps I already found the problem, I was thinking about how other users with the same problem will know that ...
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Should Arqade opt-in to the 1 reputation voting experiment?
Stack Exchange is currently looking for volunteers for their 1 reputation voting test. The Arqade mod team has decided that we’re fine with opting into this experiment, but we believe it’s a decision ...
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Minecraft Wiki Migration - Link changes
The Minecraft wiki's management has moved from Fandom (https://minecraft.gamepedia.com) to an independent wiki (https://minecraft.wiki) and it's likely going to become out of date.
Is it possible, to ...
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Screenshot of the Week #99
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Please rename all [oculus-quest-%] tags to [meta-quest-%]? The name Oculus has disappeared, right?
Please rename all oculus-quest-# tags to meta-quest-#? The name Oculus has disappeared, right?
It should be clear to users that Meta (formerly Facebook) is behind this platform. Some will decide ...
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Screenshot of the Week #98
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Screenshot of the Week #97
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Edit tag wiki has a hidden pending edits queue limit?
In the past couple of minutes I proposed a couple of tag wiki edits. After the third or so edit, the edit page no longer shows the usage guidance and tag wiki as editable fields. Instead the ...
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Are Steam media (avatars, profile backgrounds, banners, etc.) made in celebration of an event valid artifacts for game identification?
I've recently posted a question: Which visual novels are represented by the animated avatars in the 2023 Steam Visual Novel Fest?
Timmy Jim ♦ has commented that:
I don't know if these .gifs qualify ...
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Best of Arqade: 100,000 Questions on Arqade!
Sometime last week, Arqade reached a major milestone. The site has reached 100,000 questions!
Arqade was established a bit over 13 years ago, and currently ranks 25th in question count across the ...
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Community Moderation Strike - The Return of the Arqade Mods
After nearly two months, significant advancements have been made between Stack Exchange and those who are/were leading the Community Moderation strike. For those who didn't know, on June 5th of this ...
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Petition to slightly alter how we handle early Pokémon game tags (Gen 1 and Gen 2)
As established in Pokemon tag problems (Gotta Tag 'Em All), we handle Pokémon main series game tags in the following manner:
Generation Tag: pokemon-xxxxxth-generation - for questions about the ...
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What to do if a user keeps posting low-quality answers to questions?
This user has 1 reputation on multiple sites, and all of his questions have a negative score. His activity on this site consists of two answers, and while they answer the question, they are needlessly ...
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Users asking (and self-answering) in blocks
I've been going through the feed a bit recently, and I've noticed that one particular user has been asking a lot of questions, and most of the time answering them. These questions often get asked in ...
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Screenshot of the Week #96
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Screenshot of the Week #95 - Shiny things!
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The Gfycat animated image hosting platform is shutting down
Piggybacking off Scifi StackExchange
The Gfycat service for gifs is being shutdown.
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat....
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Would this question about Binding of Isaac inner working be good for the site?
I just wanted to get some insight on this question I was thinking about, as I fear it may be too hard to answer. Yet we know similar mechanics for games like Pokemon, so it is not technically ...
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Screenshot of the Week #94 - Weapon customization
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Fix broken links to Dwarf Fortress wiki
There are 112 posts with a broken link to df.magmawiki.com. This can be fixed by replacing the url with dwarffortresswiki.org and keeping the path unchanged.
Per master meta, this may be a candidate ...
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How to tag Xbox account related questions?
Do we have a tag for Xbox account-related question?
Today this question was asked, and OP wants to send Xbox friend requests after connecting their Xbox account to another service.
The question was ...
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Is it ok to ask "what is the best ___" question?
Is it alright to ask this kind of question? E.g. what is the best sword in Hypixel Skyblock Minecraft? Or no because it can be subjected to different opinions?
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The taxonomist badge hasn’t been awarded since 2021
I created The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom tag. Recently that tag crossed the 50 question mark so I would have expected to be rewarded another taxonomist badge but was not.
After doing some ...
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Solidarity: what does it mean to us?
I am posting this here instead of the main meta site, because I believe it will receive less traffic, and maybe provide some intelligent practical answers. I've spent more time in this community than ...
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Screenshot of the Week #93
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Community Moderator Strike
Update: Effective August 2nd 2023, the Arqade Moderators have concluded striking.
Effective June 5th 2023, Arqade Moderators are on strike.
An open letter from the community moderators can be found ...
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Why were my edits rejected?
On this post, my edit was rejected for reasons that are not clear to me, because they don't match reality.
I added a couple sentences in the same vein as what the OP was talking about to make things ...
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Screenshot of the Week #92
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Screenshot of the Week #91 - Achievements!
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Hello and welcome to the 91st Screenshot of the Week!
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Screenshot of the Week #90
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Imgur TOS change on May 15, 2023 may result in the loss of many media files in Arqade
Imgur announced new Terms of Service that will go into effect on May 15, 2023, with one of the changes being:
removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account
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Screenshot of the Week #89
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Hello and welcome to the 89th edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
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Tag merge & synonym request: use official titles for the Diablo tags
As per community consensus in the meta post Should we standardize our tag formatting regarding Arabic vs. Roman numerals?, we should use the official spelling of the game title in the tags whenever ...
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Screenshot of the Week #88: Easter (Eggs)
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Use full titles for Telltale's [the-walking-dead]
I propose renaming the tags for Telltale's The Walking Dead series to use the full titles.
the-walking-dead -> the-walking-dead-season-one
the-walking-dead-2 -> the-walking-dead-season-two
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Rename [forza] to [forza-motorsport]
I propose renaming the tags for the Forza Motorsport games from forza to forza-motorsport. This would help prevent confusion with forza-horizon.
forza-3 -> forza-motorsport-3
forza-4 -> forza-...
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Rename [ultimate-mvc3] to [ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3]
I propose renaming the tag for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 from ultimate-mvc3 to ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3.
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Rename [poochy-yoshi-wooly-world] to [poochy-and-yoshis-wooly-world]
I propose renaming the tag for Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World from poochy-yoshi-wooly-world to poochy-and-yoshis-wooly-world.
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