Questions tagged [allowed-questions]
Questions about the acceptability of questions. This tag denotes discussions about what is acceptable to post on the site, and for what reasons in either direction. When using this tag, please be as specific about your question(s) as you can be, to improve the quality and applicability of answers.
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Minecraft crash questions should be made off-topic: yes/no?
I'm tired of seeing terrible Minecraft crash log questions. I'm tired of closing them. I'm tired of posting comments asking for a shred of useful material. Tired of seeing the same errors repeatedly.
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When does a question "support piracy and pirated games"?
There's been a lot of talk recently about what it means to support piracy and pirated games. A very recent example is this question, in which a user asks a question that turns out to be a valid ...
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We shouldn't help users run pirated software [duplicate]
Edit: There does seem to be a bit of confusion from some people about my stance, so I want to be perfectly clear: We shouldn't require users to prove they own a copy of the game, and we should assume ...
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"Here is a thing. Look at the thing. Do you see the thing? I would like to know what this Thing is Called." A plea for sanity
identify-this-game was a Bad Tag. It was applied to Bad Questions. It is gone forever, and I could not be happier.
But it appears, that we have been throwing some babies out with our admittedly ...
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When is a game publicly available?
I have posted this question and it seems that a bunch of guys in the chat have decided that a game has to be publicly available to be able to ask questions about it.
Considering this is what the ...
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Why just ban Minecraft modding tech support?
As we are making the Minecraft mod technical questions ban super-duper official with a close-reason and everything, I feel that this question remains in dire need of a satisfactory answer:
Why just ...
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How does my question about my arcade machine not fit in Arqade?
This is the question...in question.
Arqade is an exchange about video games and the question certainly is about one, just on the hardware end.
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What do we do with questions about games that can no longer be played?
So City of Heroes shut down over the weekend. There is no longer any way to play it, as the servers went dead.
Now, we only have seven City of Heroes questions, so there's not a lot of content, one ...
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When is it appropriate to close a lore question as "not addressed directly through in-universe sources"?
This is the text for one of our off-topic close reasons.
However, I feel we've got a pretty serious problem with this close reason. This is popularly interpreted as "If the game (or series) doesn't ...
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On Trivia, Answerability, Character Identification and Fun
tl;dr at bottom
This is Gaming, we don't take kindly to fun around here.
- a Cat, May 11, 2012
I found the quote*, for those who saw my comment on this question. When I first saw it, I thought ...
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What is the difference between historical trivia questions and identification or recommendation questions? And should they be allowed?
Today, two questions were asked:
What was the first console or handheld to have a user interface outside of games?
What is the origin of the standard color coding scheme for item rarity?
Very ...
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Do we want to support "Is there a term for x" questions?
We have a terminology tag, which makes sense. Sometimes, you run into a term in a game (or game related meta - I'm thinking of you, MOBAs, where I feel like I have to learn a whole new language...) ...
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A potentially better way of dealing with crash report questions
We've all seen them, endless machine-meandering about something that went horribly wrong because someone tried to modify their game. Because they're a self-replicating problem, searching for them ...
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Re-evaluating our site - what is the scope of an "acceptable" list, if it exists?
We have a lot of open discussions on the subject of list questions - at least five of them. One conclusion I can draw from analyzing them is that we don't have a conclusion. There seems to be a faint ...
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What is the dividing line between gamer problems that we do and do not cater to?
I've got a monster draft of an answer to this question about the Steam security question. It's seriously huge. But there's one thing about it that's missing, and it's ultimately part of the goal that ...
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Why is "what is an RPG" opinion based?
We just had a question up about what made a game an RPG. The question was downvoted, and quickly deleted.
The question was also flagged and backed as opinion based. Which makes me wonder why this ...
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Do we want to change our policy on "Is There a Term for X?" questions?
For over 5 years now, our policy is that "Is There a Term for X?" questions were not allowed, as per this meta. Since then, though, the votes on that meta have changed drastically. Community ...
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Would a question about a type of video games be acceptable?
I'm looking to post a question regarding open world games, and their relative size.
Would a question like this be too broad if I narrowed it down to terminating worlds?
The specific question is "...
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Security Update Breaks Old Games
There was recently a security update by Microsoft implemented for Windows 7, 8 and 10 that completely destroys native compatibility with a very large handful of old games, namely anything with ...
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Are questions about Discord on-topic?
Prompted by discussion in chat about flags on How can I change the "Frequently Used" emoji in Discord? for migration to webapps being declined because "discord is a game-specific utility". ...
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Should questions only a few days from official release be closed for "unreleased content"?
I have asked a question about Watch Dogs today, although the official release date is in two days (27.05.2014). There are, at the moment, four closing votes. I already got the game because my pre-...
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Are speedrunning techniques and strategies on-topic here?
I recently started learning how to speedrun Super Metroid. There are lots of YouTube and Twitch videos for specific, well-known strats (e.g. short-charging, Kraid quick-kill, etc.), but I see many ...
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What do we do with questions that ask you to describe a game?
Recently, there was a question asking what Starbound is and what platforms it is available for. I'll paste it below since it is currently closed and might end up deleted, and since the original user ...
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Is programming, in a game, on topic here?
Sometimes, within a game you find programmable entities. A great example are the Turtles of Computer Craft, a minecraft mod. If I had a question about programming Turtles, or anything else that's ...
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What's the official stance on hacked/modded consoles?
Is it legitimate for a user to ask a question about a hacked or modded game console, provided said question is about gaming on it?
For example, would/should we shut down a question about running MAME ...
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Are questions about hardware design decisions classified as "developer intent" questions?
Specifically, this question about why the original Game Boy had a four-color palette. It's been asked, closed, reopened, unilaterally closed, and now has three additional re-open votes. There's been ...
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Is asking how to get a game working on a jailbroken device on-topic?
Recently, some people haven't been able to play Pokemon Go because their phones are jailbroken. Would discussing how to get the app running on their phones be on-topic, or is that an area we don't ...
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Is font identification really a gaming skill?
We've gotten another question asking us to identify a font from a game. We have a few of these, so I think it's time to at least discuss this subset.
For the moment, we seem to be using our game ...
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How frequently should I be asking questions?
When I start playing a new and unfamiliar franchise I often have lots of questions, and I want to post them all at once. This occasionally ends up like this Metro Exodus question, that was, at one ...
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Is "Historical Trivia" off-topic?
I recently asked a question about the origin of the term 'buff' and received a comment saying:
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about historical trivia about the origin of a word....
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Are questions about in-game jokes/references off-topic?
This question that I asked, about what the video games being referenced in a DOOM Eternal screenshot were, got closed for being off-topic for reasons I don't fully understand.
Now, re-reading the [...
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Is "mod rec" really an umbrella category that we want to use? Or is it confusing the situation?
This is a bit of a take on the discussion largely brought up by this question of last Fall, but to take a different approach to it. One might also gander at this oldie.
As an upfront note, any ...
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Let's test out the Modded Minecraft Tech Support close reason
Update: The Modded Minecraft Close Reason review is underway. See the following post:
Modded Minecraft Close Reason - Let's Review
It's been a little over two weeks since our latest discussion ...
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Why we should make a flag reason for closing modded Minecraft tech support questions
TL;DR We need a better flag reason for questions about tech support for modded Minecraft.
Yes, yes, I know, we have discussed this 4 years ago, but so far the only changes in hope of solving this ...
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What exactly is technical support?
Earlier this year, we decided that modded Minecraft crashes, specifically, should be off-topic, which is a decision that I, personally, have had concerns about, fearing that a rule about a particular ...
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What's bad in helping someone move their save files from a cracked game?
This question was asked and closed:
The Binding Of Isaac: move stats from pirated version to legal, steam-bought version?
How is it suddenly not a good idea to help a person move their progress from a ...
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Cheats in multiplayer games are banned, but what *is* a cheat?
In an early question in our site's history, we determined that questions about cheating in multiplayer games should be closed.
But what exactly is a cheat? Third party tools? In-game exploits? Where ...
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"Why did They design it that way, anyway?", and why do we allow or disallow these?
We get an unusually large number of questions along this line. This question comes up because of this recent closure. I'm bringing it up because our handling of this is... inconsistent.
This question ...
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What should an Off Topic Close Reason for Minecraft Crash Dumps look like?
So, we've seemingly come to a conclusion that Minecraft tech support/crash dumps are a thing we don't like and don't want to tangle with. People are starting to close these with custom reasons, and it ...
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Should we avoid all legal questions?
On Super User (and probably on others), legal questions are usually closed, or at least refrained.
The simple reason is that we are not lawyers, we are computer users (and here, gamers). As such, we ...
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Could someone explain this joke to me?
Arrow to the knee. Duke Nukem Fornever.
There sure are a lot of jokes about video games out there. If only I had a place I could go to learn what makes them funny.
Should this be that place?
Our ...
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Is Arqade a place for guides and walkthroughs?
Regarding these kalina's (useful) questions and answers about Payday 2:
How can I pull off a Bank Heist without the cops getting involved?
How can I complete the Diamond Heist without setting off any ...
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When is non-game-specific still on-topic?
The FAQ states:
If your question generally covers things such as…Game-specific hardware and utilities…then you are in the right place to ask your question!"
But it does not clearly define non-game-...
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How should we handle questions asking how to solve a specific Minesweeper board?
The moderator team has noticed a handful of minesweeper questions which all amount to "How do I solve this exact Minesweeper board?", and we believe that these questions should be closed as ...
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Do we allow questions on how to avoid or identify pirated games?
I know that we disallow questions on pirated games, but the questions that typically get closed under that reason are questions that directly relate to actually committing piracy and/or resolving ...
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How do we feel towards specific questions about the history of a certain game mechanic?
Could not find this on here, sorry if it is. As a specific example, this question about the earliest game with a major escort component.
OP even doubts if it fits here, however, the question seems to ...
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Are trivial questions allowed on the site?
Are straight up trivial questions considered unwelcome?
An example would be:
Who is the voice actor of X in game X?
What is the song called in game X?
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Can I ask a game identification question based on music?
The game-identificationtag's wiki states:
These questions are allowed only if you have an actual screenshot,
video, etc. of the game you want to identify
Am I allowed to ask such a question ...
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What will be our custom off-topic close reasons?
Yes! Custom close-reasons are now a thing that is coming fast to our site! Among with other important changes to closing putting questions on hold. Start here:
Closing changes: [on hold], unclear, ...
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Are questions about names of in game music on topic?
I recently saw that this question about a song that plays on GTA Online was closed as Off-topic, with Wrigglenite saying in the comments:
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's ...
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