Questions tagged [closing]
Questions about "on-hold" and closed questions, voting to close and close reasons.
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Should the "Which games use a neural network to influence gameplay?" question be reopened?
Recently, the question, Which games use a neural network to influence game play? was closed as an off-topic game identification question and left closed in the Reopen review queue.
Should it be ...
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Improving question on championship privilege
Re When does/do a champion/s 'defend' vs start from scratch? Difference between 'champion' and '(recurring) tournament winner'?
Sorean suggests
This is probably better suited for english....
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Should the "upgrading Nintendo Switch microSD storage" question be reopened?
This is about the currently closed question: What should I look for when upgrading Nintendo Switch microSD storage? It had been left closed in the reopen review queue.
I don't think the above question ...
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When should "Why is it bad practice to test for item names?" NOT be used as a duplicate target?
I'm writing this because I notice that this question has been closed as a dupe of this. This is wrong, for a reason I am about to explain below. I left a comment on the question asking for it to be ...
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What constitutes "modded Minecraft"?
I realize this probably sounds pedantic, but please bear with me.
A recent question prompted this matter once again1: a user wants to start modding their Minecraft but runs into a problem, but the ...
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Problem with understanding an incorrectly closed valid question
Just asked consecutively 2 questions relating to an issue I'm experiencing with Diablo 3. Someone suggested to ask another question for the very specific issue, which I did, but someone decided to ...
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Are Minecraft BE behaviour packs considered mods? [duplicate]
It seems like this duplicate has been raised a while before in the past, but has not achieved community consensus. Let's revisit this discussion one more time.
Related: Are Minecraft JE data packs ...
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Why is this question still closed?
Why is this question still closed? It's not a duplicate and I've voted to reopen several times. I don't see any argument for why they are duplicates and no one has even provided one either. They are ...
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Instead of closing this question, how about migrating it to GameDev?
This question was closed four years ago.
Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?
But this has existed for eleven years now:
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com
So ...
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Does 'I can only answer this with videos' suggest a question is too broad?
I came upon a question asking for help with a particular achievement. The achievement is quite extensive.. you need to complete several hundred levels, although they are only asking for help with ...
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Do we have to close "bad questions" at the drop of a hat?
Here's a new question:
The name of an old 'tower defence' game
It was opened 4 hours ago.
And then it was closed less than an hour after it was opened.
And here's me, 4 hours later, and I'm 99%...
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How to self-answer when the question is closed?
My lowest scored question (as of now) is recently solved by me and I wanted to self-answer it, but thanks to the given fact of game piracy, it was closed off-topic.
How can I self-answer my question ...
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Why is the community bot closing questions?
Why? I couldn't find anything, I'm just wondering? Does the bot deem that the wording is too similar or something?
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Asking time is later than closing time
So I just encountered this question and it seems like something's off:
As it turns out, the asking time seems to be quite later than the closing time and it's strange considering that this isn't ...
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Be more friendly!
Yes, a game-research question should contain a picture or something..
I had remembered a Demo was on a CD that is dated A to B in Magazine X and the genre as well as setting. So I asked my case. I had ...
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How should I deal with an answer that's only partially applicable and low quality?
We've all seen posted answers that aren't relevant to the question. There has been wide discussion about not voting to delete incorrect answers, enough to the point where text has been added to say &...
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How should a Game Identification question that no longer has a valid artifact be handled?
There is a recent close-vote review for a game-identification question that had a YouTube video in the post as the artifact for the game(s) needed to be identified. However, the post is nearing 4 ...
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Should we have a closure/flag reason for talking about Bedrock NBT questions?
Because NBT is very limited/not possible in Bedrock edition, and many questions pop up regarding Bedrock Edition NBT (such as this), should we create a duplicate target/recommended closure flag for ...
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How can I improve this question to be suitable for reopening?
I've just came across this question, which has been closed as unclear/too vague.
I understand very well what the asker is demanding an answer to. However, judging by the fact that it is closed, some ...
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Debate on question closure: “Why is MCStacker not giving me the correct command?”
After this question got closed, I became quite an advocate for getting it reopened. We’ve had quite the discussion in the question comments, and I’d like to start an official debate on it.
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Should this question have been closed for mentioning piracy?
After answering this question with a good answer that got 23 upvotes, it has now been closed because the asker mentioned that it was a pirated game.
The question was a pretty good question though, and ...
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Bug or feature: I can't vote to close a question a second time
I voted to close this question since it is asking for game recommendations. However, I also wanted to leave a comment linking the asker to suggestions for sites that allow recommendations. I wanted to ...
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Question reopen request and question on how to properly take action on similar issues
I've found a question on Arqade that has been closed as a duplicate of another.
I do not believe that this question is a duplicate of its current duplicate target. It can be inferred in two ways, one ...
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(not) Closing old questions
Today I decided to go through the Close Votes reviews.
There seemed to be nothing wrong with the reasons for closing the flagged questions at first, but then I noticed the dates of asking the ...
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How can it be determined whether a question speculates about developer intent?
I noticed this question, which I personally had thought was a reasonable one, has been closed:
Why does the scythe have a cooldown bar? Does it have a hidden ability?
The close reason given is:
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Question posted in a language other than english and was closed. Should I translate it and vote to reopen it?
The question ¿Como puedo pasar de aplicación a externa (archivo)?Minecraft PE [closed] was closed for being written in Spanish instead of English.
I know Spanish, so I can translate it into English. ...
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Modded Minecraft Close Reason - Let's Review
Well everyone, it's been over 3 months (closer to 5!) since we implemented the Minecraft close reason, and we have some fresh statistics to review.
First up, here's the previous discussion in case you ...
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What is broad about this question?
Recently I asked a question about exclusivity of PS games as find it very confusing topic. However a day later it was closed with the reason "The question is too broad". And I'm not quite following ...
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Difference between 'flag' and 'close'
For some reason I only just now noticed that I can choose to either flag a question for moderation, or opt to close it.
Is the second option really just a shortcut (of one mouse-click less) to that ...
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Dealing with old questions about non-existent features?
As games get updated, sometimes features are removed, or become redundant, especially with games that cannot have previous versions accessed, like the leaves in Pokémon Go.
Questions like this, ...
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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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Should we replace one of our close reasons with modded Minecraft tech support?
The idea of a close reason specifically for modded Minecraft tech support has come up time and time and time again. Since we have recently revisited the wording for off-topic Minecraft questions, now ...
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Where can I ask technical troubleshooting questions about modded Minecraft?
I have an issue with Modded Minecraft. I'm pretty sure it's my computer itself that has the problem. I tried to download and play Skyfactory, and it always gave me an error on startup. Any other ...
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My request for recommendations was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
I posted a question asking for recommendations of games, consoles, or other hardware or software, which was closed as off-topic for one of the reasons explained in this FAQ. Is there anywhere else I ...
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My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
I posted a game identification question which was closed as off-topic because it was lacking a screenshot or video from the game I'm trying to identify. Is there anywhere else I can ask my question if ...
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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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Why was this question put on hold?
This question was automatically deleted, because it was put on hold and... I am not exactly sure why it was deleted, but my question is mainly why it was put on hold in the first place.
closed as ...
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When do I Vote to Close?
Sometimes I find questions that should be closed for one reason, but due to the quality of the question, they are better suited for another. For example, a question might be about modded Minecraft, ...
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Close reason for "cannot reproduce"
(originally asked here)
How should questions be closed where the problem described cannot be reproduced? One example is this question. The exact same thing that the asker describes as not working ...
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Is the same situation in two games too broad?
Assuming that I ask for a solution in FIFA 18 and 19 and the controls are the same, thanks to classic controls, so the solution will work for both games.
Can this be too broad given the ...
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Can we remove the NPE from the minecraft error list?
The template answer we use to dupe-close most of the minecraft error questions contains a VERY basic hint to get rid of a certain Null Pointer Exception.. Also it is just a hint, not even a solution. ...
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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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Why was this question closed as "unclear"? [duplicate]
This question was closed as "unclear what you're asking" despite me pointing out earlier in the comments that "too broad" was the correct close reason. If it all, because shortly afterwards OP ...
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What's up with the excessive close- and downvotes lately?
For example here and here... these two are only examples because I was directly involved, there will likely be more.
I get the feeling that this is a problem in situations where people don't read or ...
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Is it possible to add another Off-Topic close reason?
The current OT close reasons show several options, but one key reason is missing: blatantly Off-Topic.
I have tried to fetch some numbers from Data, but I can only access comments that are not ...
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Should this question about colors depicting game item rarity have been re-opened?
There is a question that was asked involving gaming history and color schema of item rarity. As standards go on this site, this is off-topic as it is requesting the identity of the game that first ...
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Are we shutting down art character identification questions?
This is an inconsistency that I'm seeing pop up fairly often. We get a lot of questions dealing with "Who is this character?" with a piece of artwork supplied, with the question having a fairly ...
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Handling dupes asking for updated info
Recently we had a Pokémon Go question asking for how a specific feature works as of a specific patch. We also have an old question which asks about how the feature works. I believe the answers on the ...
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Should we reword the closure text for duplicate questions?
When we close a question as a duplicate of another, the following is displayed on the question:
I thought that the normal protocol was to have the original author edit the existing the question that ...
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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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