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Re-evaluating the text of our Game Identification close reason
Update: Thanks to all for your suggestions and feedback! We have decided to go with Dragonrage's suggestion, which addressed all the key points, and combined the best parts of the other suggestions. ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Result?
Last August, we had a discussion about a new approach to duplicate questions, and it was decided that we would have a trial period that would go from then until January of 2017 and afterwards we would ...
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Why was this question closed for having illegal content?
Is my 3DS bricked?
This question deals with homebrew, which on it's own is not illegal (homebrew is the means of running 'custom' applications on a device (usually a console) that are not officially ...
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Duplicate trial: "Duplicate" to "Not a Duplicate" to "Now a Duplicate" process
From Duplicate Questions: A Trial
The broad rule is: Do not close questions as duplicates if the target question does not help the new asker.
I understand that there is split opinion for support ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
We asked whether you wanted to try something new, and the votes say yes.
So, starting today, and running until January 2017, we're going to do things a little differently in regards to duplicate ...
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Questions about differences between the same game on different platforms
Are questions that concern the differences between the same game between different platforms permitted or encouraged?
An example of this:
How many official versions of flappy birds are there?
I'...
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What's the policy for answering closed questions?
I think I've done this at least a half dozen times in the past few days, either in comments or before it actually gets closed. I don't think my answers are unreasonable, since people frequently report ...