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Should I delete or vote to close?
If a question I have asked turns out to be a dud or a duplicate or for whatever reason should be closed, should I vote to close or just delete it?
In some cases like this question they still do ...
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To Close, or not to Close?
Not a "My question is being closed" question
Quite simply: Should I vote to close? Sometimes I come across a question that I think might be off-topic, or IMO unclear, (obviously if I don't know about ...
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Should I vote to close a question that I asked if I later find out it is a duplicate?
Recently I asked a question about what genre a particular set of games falls under. It was answered and accepted, and the answer given recieved 10 votes (though the question recieved 2 upvotes and 2 ...
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On/Off Topic inconsistencies in Help, Flag, etc
This is a follow-up to @Caleb's Is "Historical Trivia" off-topic?
The consensus there was that those questions are fine, since it's about video games. This conflicts directly with the older
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Repeat questions with hard to find "original" post
Anyone who frequents minecraft has probably seen several questions of people asking where to find minecraft.jar, META-INF, or the bin folder. For example:
My bin folder is missing
I can't find ...
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Almost every answer is going to be opinion based, How can you possibly distinguish?
My point is that almost every answer to a question is opinion based. it will be very rare to find a single answer to any question and it is always what the "answerer" thinks is best.
Many other stack ...
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Broken Link in Closing > Off-Topic
The highlighted link to this blog post is going to a 404. It looks like the link needs to be updated to point to: http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2012/08/identifying-games-when-you-cant-remember-...
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What's wrong with a question about the rarest Steam achievements?
I asked this question about the rarest Steam achievements, and it got put on hold for being too broad almost immediately.
While I disagreed with "too broad", I realized the question might be "too ...
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Questions that are too specific?
Similar to this meta question, I'd like to figure out what to do about a scenario where multiple extremely similar questions are asked but have minor differences.
For an example, see these two ...
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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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Can the close review queue stop assuming that an edit to a duplicate is the last action I want to take?
Disclaimer: This is about closing as duplicates only - not other types of closures.
When in the review queue for close votes, I sometimes find myself reviewing a question that has been voted for ...
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Oh, look, it's "unreleased content" again
So, apparently we recently had two closure/reopen wars on questions about diablo-3 and specifically the upcoming Reaper of Souls expansion ("What armor and weapons do Crusaders use?" and "How much XP ...
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Is this question off topic because of the release date?
So I recently asked a question about the new Diablo expansion. I know that the content isn't playable yet, but it's already in the game (files). I personally got a flail which is one of these items (...
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Is it appropriate to ask for reopen votes on correctly identified ITGs?
Context: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/160025/cant-remember-an-old-cyberpunk-winforms-game-update-found
Is it appropriate to ask for reopen votes? If it is, then please consider the ...
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Asking if a game-related-product is available, at all, anywhere, for anyone
I asked this question about finding the DFA documentary a couple days ago, and first it just seemed a little controversial; +2/-2, now +3/-3, then it was seized upon as being one of those darned ...
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Why is this question on hold?
There is this question that is currently on hold. From the comments, it seems that it is on hold as "unclear what you're asking" but it is currently on hold as off-topic for game identification.
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Can we rephrase this question to make it fit?
So this question got asked earlier by a new user:
How do I see my inputs?
It got put on hold because it seemed to be more about development tools than gaming. However in the comments, the user ...
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Idenfity-this-game close reason
I could have sworn there was a close reason for identify-this-game type questions, but I can't see it now.
Should I place a custom close reason on these questions?
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On ending Chronological Oppression with respect to the matter of Question Duplication
Yesterday, a question was asked. It wasn't a very good question, but it was a valid, cromulent question. I wouldn't downvote it, or vote to close it in a vacuum, but I also wouldn't upvote it either. ...
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Do/Should questions about limited time events in apps get closed after the event passes?
Recently there have been a rash of questions about Tiny Death Star's holiday update ranging from bugs to end date. The event is now over, and presumably most of the questions are now moot. Do they now ...
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Why is this question considered 'close-worthy'
Quite some time ago I asked a question and it was closed if memory serves.
The question is, "What are all the ways to generate EU in Feed The Beast?" (10k only as it is deleted)
Such an answer would ...
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One's a question about cars only, and the other's a question about all vehicles (SR4) - should the latter be closed as a duplicate of the former?
I'm talking about this question of mine for SR4: "What are the fastest vehicles, and where or how can I get them?" - which was closed* as a duplicate of: "What is the fastest car in Saints Row 4, and ...
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Are there grounds for getting an extra custom reason close slot?
LessPop's close reason was rejected recently by Shog for being too generic and catch-all, but we can only do so much with our three given slots. Here's what we cover(ed) in our close reasons again:
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What is it with the first custom off-topic close reason?
I still don't understand this close reason:
Questions that ask which games or other products meet specific criteria are off topic. We primarily deal with questions about playing games, not about ...
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This question should not have been closed once, let alone twice
The question How can I implement currency on my server? has been closed not once, but twice. Apparently by people who don't play on Bukkit servers or participate in the wider Minecraft discussion ...
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Is our shopping-rec ban just a redundant subset of "primarily opinion-based"?
We have a ban on shopping recommendation questions because:
They require us to mind-read what the asker's tastes are (no matter how thoroughly they try to describe their tastes)
Voting patterns on ...
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Should we close ill-posed questions?
There is a type of question that is neither off topic, too broad, unclear, nor primarily opinion-based. It's not even too localised. It's just ill-posed, in that it lacks fundamental data to be ...
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Why was this question re-closed?
129350 (" diablo-3How is loot shared on D3 console co-op?") was put on hold today, with the following close reasons given:
"Questions about unreleased or illegal content are off topic on Arqade. ...
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Should a question be modified to include multiple subjects?
Recently, I asked a question about the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is part of a series of video games called Counter-Strike.
Another user pointed out that there was a similar ...
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What does it mean if the "close" vote number drops? [duplicate]
I noticed on one of my questions there were 3 close votes before (a week or so before), and today when I looked at it the number had changed to 1. What does this mean?
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How long do close votes remain valid?
I've recently asked a question about an unofficial fan-made game, after having gained clarification that such questions are in fact on topic.
Some people originally disagreed, and the question in ...
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Meta Off-Topic close reason makes no sense
We got new close reasons! Yay!
It looks like we can have a different set of custom closures for Off-Topic on Meta. I don't think we need anything fancy here, but what we have now is just nonsense.
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Can I transfer my answer on a duplicate question to the duplicate target?
I answered a question, and later on that question was marked as a duplicate. After checking out the original question closer I realized that my answer to the dupe answers the original question better (...
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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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what is considered "future" here?
I've asked question related to Battlefield 4, which indeed is a future release. However, the question wasn't about the game itself, but about videos and information already released at E3.
Why is ...
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What is the policy on older questions rendered obsolete by newer ones?
I just got this question (Is there any diplomatic effect for “You'll pay for this” responses when talking to other players?) in my Close Votes queue. It's being put up for closing as a duplicate of ...
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Can we pay more attention when voting to close questions?
Recently we've had a few questions closed that perhaps shouldn't have been, or should have been closed with a different reason. I don't want to dig up the obvious candidate here, that has it's own ...
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Are Minecraft questions about an unreleased feature too localized?
Minecraft releases weekly snapshots, which allow players to view upcoming features pretty much as the developers develop them. Since anyone can get their hands on these, they are not considered ...
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I have modified this question is this now okay?
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/114659/whats-the-official-in-game-explanation-if-any-on-why-we-get-town-portal-when
Before I asked why we get town portal when defeating skeleton king. What ...
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Why was this question closed when there are plenty of similar questions open?
What does 'game-training' got to do with an application that cheats in a game?
This question seems legit to me, the poster, as there are plenty other questions about the origins of a certain ...
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Netflix Questions
There seems to be a few (not a lot, but a few) questions about Netflix and how it relates to various video game systems.
I understand that Netflix is not a video game, and therefore I understand why ...
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Can someone tell why this question was closed as off topic?
Since I have no idea how to message moderators on this site (there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. why is that?) I'll post my question here.
Here the question I asked:
Is there an app that ...
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BioShock Infinite closures on release day
I asked a series of questions on BioShock Infinite very recently (within the last hour), all of which were pummel-closed citing this and that. I understand that it is not yet midnight in America, but ...
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Are these questions the same?
I'm having a hard time distinguishing the differences between the two, but since both are sufficiently answered, I don't know what to do.
Are these two questions dupes of each other?
When does the ...
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What causes closed questions to appear (or reappear) in the 'Reopen Votes' review queue?
As I was reading this meta post: Why are moderators or high-rep users quick to vote-close a question on Arqade?, some of the comments there got me thinking: What causes closed questions to appear (or ...
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Why are moderators or high-rep users quick to vote-close a question on Arqade?
I have experienced this a lot, and I'm sure other users as well. Sometimes the questions are well structured and answer-able but moderators or high-rep users quickly downvote and vote-close the ...
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Why was a question about minecraft server backup closed, considering there is a server-administration tag?
I've read the FAQ, but it isn't clear to me why "How do I make an automatic server backup in Minecraft? [closed]" was closed off-topic. There is a decent amount of activity on the server-...
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Why was this question closed? how could I improve it?
I made a question, which was initially commented as non-answerable. However, a mod agreed with the question, and there have been some interesting comments so far.
Even though the question was ...
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Why was my question about games in a compilation closed?
Cultures: What were the various games? What do the compilations contain?
This question appears to have been closed (long after it was asked) due to this excluded criterion:
"Catalogues (listing ...
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How do you cancel a closed vote that you just placed?
I just close-voted something, but had a change of heart on my decision. How to revert that decision?
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