Questions tagged [discussion]
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #7 on Arqade has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #45
This contest has ended
Hello and welcome to the forty-fifth edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! SaintWacko's submission of RNG ...
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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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Should we re-open this Minecraft BE add-on Q&A?
I recently created the first post in a series of highly detailed Q&As related to add-on creation for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, and during my research phase I came across this post about custom ...
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Should questions boasting statistics be required to provide supporting evidence?
I recently came across this question that boasts a statistic about strongholds generating under villages in Minecraft Bedrock Edition:
Strongholds have a 1/10 chance to spawn under a village; does ...
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Ideas to bring more users to the SE Chat?
Maybe it would bring more people to the site if we pushed the chat a little more.
Right now, the only mention I can see that there is a chat is the link in the footer.
So, I'm pooling you all for some ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Should the SE chatroom be phased out for an official Arqade Discord?
Its a thought that I've had for a little while.
The SE Chatroom seems to have built up quite a technological debt like links not unfurling or a mobile app. And it does make sense. The chatrooms of SE ...
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Rename [wotl-eternal] -> [the-binding-of-isaac-eternal]
In 2015 this question was asked, so I created the tag wotl-eternal which was a free DLC for The binding of Isaac, and an improvement for Wrath of the lamb DLC.
At that time we still had the 25 ...
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Should a question be closed because it does not align with a tag’s wiki?
I asked this question: Name for games that have abusive in app purchases
I picked the best tag I could see for my question (terminology).
My question was closed as “off-topic” because the terminology ...
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Q&A Proposal: How to create a custom item in a Minecraft BE add-on?
I've been thinking about it for a while, and this question helped solidify my thoughts on it. I think it would be beneficial to create a Q&A in order to answer the following basic questions, all ...
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Arqade & SciFi Cross-site Topic Challenge: The Elder Scrolls
The challenge has now begun!
The Arqade moderators have decided to do a joint topic challenge with our sister site, Science Fiction & Fantasy. The theme for this topic challenge is for the the-...
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Rename [codename-steam] to [code-name-steam]
Can the tag for Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. be renamed from codename-steam to code-name-steam? I tried to retag the one question for this game, but got an error that the new tag would be too similar.
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #44 - RNG
This contest has ended
Hello and welcome to the forty-fourth edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Joachim's submission of a ...
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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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Are "this worked for me" answers, actually answers when they're concise?
I recently came across a rather concise answer to an interesting question that was simply two short sentences:
For me, the render distance was doing it. I dropped the render distance to normal and ...
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Should we have well explained Q&A(s) for basic Minecraft command translations?
There is a huge list of commands available in both minecraft-bedrock-edition and minecraft-java-edition that have the ability to be translated between the two versions. Recently, I had the pleasure of ...
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How do we handle unethical questions?
I recently commented on a question that I believe to be, unethical. To summarize, the OP is asking what they can do to get around a ban placed on their account in a game they're playing. Subsequently, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Arqade is scheduled for an election next week, 2021-08-02. In ...
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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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Are MCBE "behaviour packs" on-topic?
If I understand it right, this question is about behaviour packs in MCBE. As far as I know, those are written in a regular programming language, just using an MCBE specific API. Are those questions on-...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #43
This contest has ended
Hello and welcome to the forty-third edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Batophobia's submission of an ...
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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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Vast amounts of Minecraft Crash questions
The ever present issue about "how to handle Minecraft Crash questions" has gained itself another meta question.
We have had a few good meta posts in the past, like
How do I ask a good Minecraft Bug/...
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Does exploiting a demo to access portions of the game locked behind the paid version constitute as Piracy?
If a user asks a question involving accessing content not usually available to the demo but rather the full game, does this break the site guideline on piracy listed below?
Please note, however, that ...
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Should we switch Lazers to only post Hot Network Questions in The Bridge?
Lazers is the feedbot which posts questions to The Bridge, the general chatroom for Arqade. It's nearly as old as The Bridge itself, and old school users will likely remember when it's avatar was 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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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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Are Minecraft JE data packs considered mods?
Here is a question that asks for technical support of Minecraft JE Data Packs.
From the Minecraft Wiki:
The data pack system provides a way for players to further customize their Minecraft experience....
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How to tell if a Minecraft answer is valid for the tagged version of Minecraft?
I saw this answer to a Minecraft Java edition question:
You can use testForBlock command to search where the command block is
placed (well, this command was then removed in Minecraft Java 1.13).
The ...
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Should a game always have its own tag?
In a recent answer to another one of my Arqade Meta questions, the answerer mentioned that I should create a tag if I find myself asking a question about a game that doesn't already have its own tag.
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #42: Destruction!
This contest has ended
Hello and welcome to the forty-second edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Wipqozn's submission of his ...
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Is asking if a specific behavior violates the terms of service allowed?
I've been thinking about creating a second account on a specific MMORPG, but want to make sure that it is allowed before I go ahead. The game's Terms of Service (ToS) are written in such dense ...
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Does talking about specific game groups constitute game history?
I was improving a question that asks about specific types of player groups in "No Man's Sky". It occurred to me that this sort of question might be considered gaming-history.
Checking the ...
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How to Handle Xbox Series X/S Tagging?
While we don't have many questions yet about these tags (or any for the Series S right now), it seems other sources (take Wikipedia for example) put the Xbox Series X and Series S together, rather ...
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Are there any adverse effects to purposely earning the Peer Pressure badge?
There are a few posts (here and here are two of them) that talk about earning the Peer Pressure badge. The requirements are quite simple:
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower.
This means, that, ...
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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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Is there a safe space to ask questions seeking feedback?
Questions seeking feedback about any topic, are, by definition, opinion seeking questions, and questions that could lead to opinionated answers are discouraged on Stack Exchange sites.
However, on ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #41
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Hello and welcome to the forty-first edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Booga Roo's submission of a ...
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Answering where the optimal answer is 'follow this link'
I came upon a question that I feel I could provide a real high quality answer to; but the format of this site doesn't allow it.
You see, the user is asking for help with an achievement, and what they ...
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Can we please stop using inline code for formatting full Minecraft commands?
Related: Can we please stop using block quotes for formatting Minecraft commands?
Can we please stop using inline code for full Minecraft commands? I notice a lot of people have been doing this, and ...
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Screenshot of the Tweak: replace image with smaller version
I would like to propose two more edits to the Screenshot of the Week widget:
Have the image that appears in the widget be a smaller version of the original (Shadow's answer here pointed that out), so ...
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Screenshot of the Tweak: title links back to original answer
I would like to propose two more edits to the Screenshot of the Week widget:
Have the title of the image (highlighted in the image below) link back to the original answer in the screenshot-of-the-...
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Commented as an answer.. but the comment provides a lot of value
I flagged an answer because it outright failed to answer the question, and even admitted to being an answer designed to circumvent the users inability to comment.
However, assuming good faith, the ...
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Is it time that we allow [game-identification] tagged questions without a audiovisual artifact?
Feels weird to see game-identification questions pop up on the real-time feed, not through Gaming.SE, but through SciFi.SE. Perhaps it's time we revisit the rules and guidelines established for those ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #40: Robots!
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Good morning and welcome to the fortieth edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Robotnik's submission of ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #39
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Good morning and welcome to the thirty-ninth edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! DefaultSimon's ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #38: Into the Storm
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Welcome to the thirty-eighth edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Roddy of the Frozen Peas' submission ...
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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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Are questions asking if a map is based on a real world location on-topic?
Would it be on-topic to ask if a certain game's map is based on a real world location? Questions requesting games set in real world locations are off topic due to being recommendations but I think ...
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