Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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Screenshot of the Week Themes
To make is easier to track what themes have been suggested, this will be a central location for proposing themes for future Screenshot of the Week contests.
Please limit answers to one theme per ...
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I want to ask a question about a game which has no tag yet, how should I tag it?
I want to ask a question about game X, but this is the first time anyone asks about X so there's no corresponding [X] tag, and my reputation is too low to create a new tag. How should I tag it?
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Screenshot of the Week - Hall of Fame
Since the screenshot-of-the-week contest was based on the 'Photo of the Week' contest of our Photography sister website (see here), a corresponding 'Hall of Fame' has been suggested (here), to ...
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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 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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The Great Arqade Clean-Up of 2012
Don't just delete the tag from the question and ignore everything else. If a question also has grammatical errors, terrible title, et cetera, then fix it along with removing the tag.
Let's Get This ...
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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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What should be done with questions asking for game identification? [duplicate]
UPDATE: Identify this game (ITG) questions based on the asker's memory are now off topic on the site.
The community reached this decision with 34 vs 27 votes
New ITG questions will be closed ...
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How should I write tag wikis?
We've recently instigated a discussion about cleaning up tags, following on from last year's tag cleanup. You can see it here.
While there is more to Arqade than just the tags we have, let's stick on ...
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Platform Tags are Useless
So, for nearly two years now, we've had a fairly straightforward 'rule' for when to use Platform Tags (i.e. ps3, pc etc.):
I think it should only be added when:
It's a general question about the ...
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A Close Vote is not a Super-Downvote. Please don't use it as one
So, yesterday a dumb question was asked.. It was closed as Not A Real Question in less than an hour, and reopened mere minutes later. This isn't the first time that this has happened. It usually ...
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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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How should we deal with out of date questions/answers?
This is perhaps a concern largely unique to questions about MMO's, and other multiplayer games that see major game-balance patches released on a regular basis, but how should we address content ...
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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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What should be done with out of version questions?
Gaming is a fast moving field and sometimes things get left behind or shut down. What should we do with the content on the site that is no longer pertinent to the current state of gaming? Should we ...
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What are the requirements for asking a game identification question?
I want to ask about a game I don't know the name of. How should I do that?
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What should be done with questions asking for game recommendations?
What should be done with a game-rec question posted to the site? Please only give short and simple answers that the community can then enforce as a policy. This is not the place for discussion - other ...
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Arqade Community Check-in 2019: A call for input
Arqade, our well loved Q&A site for passionate videogamers is rapidly approaching its 9th birthday! We (and Stack Exchange as a whole) have grown a lot as a community from those heady days and - ...
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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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Arqade's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Outdated Answers Due to Patches
What happens to questions and answers that will eventually get outdated because of future patches? Take for example if we were at the day that Warcraft 3 was released and I asked
How do you ...
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What's the official stance on console emulation?
The way I see it, many of us enthusiasts are probably familiar with emulation and use emulators to play classic games. (I do, I'll readily admit.)
However, it's also fairly likely that many cartridge/...
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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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How do we stand on cheats, in particularly for multiplayer games?
This was prompted by this question: Idling in Team Fortress 2
Seeing as this is a form of cheating, what is our official stance? Do we allow cheats, caveat lector?
This is considered a bannable ...
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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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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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Non-gaming gaming console questions -- allowed?
Should non-game related gaming console questions be allowed? Some question might be "Does Blu-Ray work for XBox 360"?
Should these be allowed because they are a gaming console or are they better ...
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Should questions always be tagged with either a console/platform or with "multi-platform"?
We appear to have instant consensus that a game tag (or game series tag) should be applied to all questions on specific titles.
Should we also look to apply either a console or platform tag (iphone, ...
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Should lore questions as an entire category be banned?
There are some very vocal users who feel that lore questions should be banned. From what I've been able to find, they were just sort of allowed on Arqade in the first place, as I can't find any meta ...
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How do we handle duplicate answers?
Preface: I have read the original question, and the followup. However, there doesn't seem to be any consensus on what should be done with them.
Introduction
As Arqade grows, we are attracting lots ...
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List questions for The Old Republic / MMOs -- CW, closure, other?
When I posted Where can I find all the datacrons and what can I get from them?, I got this response:
This seems like an overly broad (aka List) question. – Powerlord Dec 17 '11 at 1:26
While not a ...
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Please don't misuse the voting system
This has been in discussion in chat on and off since I first joined up. Random downvotes and upvotes are things that happen. No need to sweat it. It happens, move on.
We've had this discussion ...
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Handling game recommendations - how can we solve these two problems of quality?
Yes, this is really long. But if you actually care about game recommendations and want to support making them on-topic (or at least want to understand some part of our opposition in clearer detail), ...
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Should we standardize our tag formatting regarding Arabic vs. Roman numerals?
Based on comments in this meta, the possibility of standardizing tag formats sitewide came up and I feel that it might be beneficial to the site.
For instance, we have tags for the Final Fantasy ...
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Game canon questions which extend beyond the context of the story and its material
This is a Meta discussion being opened for the following question, as it does classify a general sort of question.
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/23041/why-didnt-aperture-science-invent-...
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Questions with vague titles
I know these questions are OK when you look at the tag, but I think this and this question should have "in NetHack" at the end of the title.
Do you agree or is it just me that is picky?
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What about the new user experience here is turning people away?
This is a case of straw that broke the camels back, in
general I have found the community here to be very unwelcoming
compared to other SE communities and the restrictions on question
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[game-recommendations] and single, correct answers
On my question asking about game recommendations, the user random asked how such a question can have a single, correct answer.
It's a very good question, in my opinion, so I bring it here - ...
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Please fill in the alt text for images on this site
When linking an image, the word in square brackets is the alternative text (alt-text for short). This gets displayed if the browser can't show the image, but also gets used by screen reading software ...
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How to tag: use acronyms or not?
I would like to ask the general approach we have to follow in tagging game names.
This question already shown the problem: wow or world-of-warcraft.
But there any many other examples:
hl2 or half-...
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The great Minecraft tag family cleanup!
It was discussed recently that the minecraft tag family is potentially up to 6 years behind the actual reality of Minecraft naming conventions and versioning, and a lot of Minecraft tags are used ...
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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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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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What's our procedure for asking about not-quite-legal games?
I Saw this question today:
How do I get ribbons in Pokemon Vortex?
and I agree with DisgruntledGoat
Pokemon Vortex isn't a real Pokemon game, just an illegal fan-made
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Do "mod-development" questions belong here?
This is a continuation of "do "map-editor" questions belong here".
I'd say mod-making typically revolves around reprogramming game aspects, reskinning or replacing models, changing sound effects and ...
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Should we allow tags for a specific class in RPG games?
Browsing the site today, I came across this question, which was unique in Diablo 3 in that it is the only question with a secondary tag for the player class. Taking guidance from this meta question, ...
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What's the policy regarding "easy" questions?
More than once I have come across a question which could be solved with very little effort on the submitter's part.
While I risk sounding like a pompous elitist by asking this question, I personally ...
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What do we do with historic questions that no longer make sense?
Minecraft's new (as of 1.5) water physics mean that this question no longer makes sense as a question - the situation can no longer arise.
Should this question be closed/deleted?
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A personal appeal to Jeff Atwood: Recent Changes to Gaming
This meta post is being made as per David Fullerton's suggestion.
Hey, Jeff, can we talk?
We know you're very busy doing stuff, but I think many of us folks here on Gaming would appreciate some ...
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When should we edit game names out of question titles? And why?
I like including game names in my question titles. I feel it makes more grammatical sense and gives a clearer indication of what the question is about. From time to time, though, I see an editor ...
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