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Synonym request for quests: quest
Could someone suggest quest as a synonym for quests?
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Twitter account for gaming.blogoverflow.com
I've been seeing the statistics for gaming blog this evening. It seems that all visitors come from chat rooms. (And some blogoverflow.com today since Rebecca has been announcing it all day :D)
Would ...
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Community Promotional Grant Movement - Closed Beta System
For organizational efforts, we're opening a new question to follow up on the plans for sponsoring Beta participation. To note the point of the motion, I'll quote Oak's statements on it.
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How should we tag Space Invaders Infinity Gene?
Yet another game with a tag longer than the 25 character limit. I'm having trouble figuring out how we should do this one. In our past discussions regarding titles with more than 25 characters, we ...
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Which tag? wii-u or wiiu
New console incoming new 'which tag' quesion.
wii-u or wiiu
On official website is alwasy written Wii U, with single space between Wii and U, so I would suggest to use wii-u tag.
What do you think?
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[tag] redirects to [tagging] instead of [tags]
If tags and tagging are going to be independent (not that I agree with that, go comment here), tag should at least stay pointed at tags instead of tagging.
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Identify this game: duplicates [closed]
What to do with identify-this-game duplicates? The answer to this question is the same as this one, but the descriptions that users gave were a bit different. Do we have to close it as duplicate or ...
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Did something change with the mod tools for high-rep users?
I've been getting notifications of proposed edits for several months now, but today I found a little yellow box where the orange "suggested edits" button usually is. Upon clicking it directed me to ...
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Are questions about patch notes too localized?
I've been noticing a number of questions related to game updates, like New rare item and enemies in Terraria 1.0.3, and I wonder if these questions aren't limited in their usefulness.
If the thinking ...
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Are questions asking for non-game recommendations off topic?
The specific question that brings up this issue is asking for a recommendation for a game-based website.
From the answers it's gotten so far, it seems to have all the same issues as game ...
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Are A51 proposals valid Gaming ads?
Are Community Promotion ads a valid place for Area 51 proposal ads? Here's why I think it would be a valid candidate ad:
SE Podcast #6 was all about the gamification of Stack Exchange.
Area 51 ...
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Create tag without privileges
Like the ability to submit edits for approval without privilege shouldn't there be an ability to do the same with Tags? Especially for this site with new games (and therefore tags) coming out monthly ...
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Can answers be accepted by other users?
The answer to this question is correct and should really be accepted, but I don't know if the user will return to do it.
Is it possible to mark an answer as accepted on their behalf?
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Why do we have a game-rec tag if it's off topic?
Looking at the list of questions for the game-rec tag and this meta question, why does this tag even exist if it's off topic?
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Lower or remove the tag synonym upvote restriction
I tried to create tag synonym today for iphone -> ios, since there is an obvious split on these kind of questions. Although true that iOS encompasses the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, software that can ...
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Link to blog appearing when logged out, but not when logged in?
I had the good fortune two days ago of checking the site on a different computer, logged out from my account. Because of this, I noticed the link to the site blog right up there with review, chat, ...
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Should questions about obsoleted mechanics be simply removed?
We have quite a lot questions about minecart boosters and water elevators, neither of which work anymore in patch 1.6.
The community's consensus is currently: "add a disclaimer on them all"; as the ...
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Appeal and discussion for "How Can We Get More Players on Our Server?"
This is a Meta discussion for the following question, which is getting somewhat of uneasy looks as well as repeated flags.
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22543/how-can-we-get-more-...
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Gaming Questions of the Week #8
In an effort to try and keep the Question of the Week going, please submit your suggestions for this week!
Previous Questions of the Week:
First week's question - Minecraft's World Size
Second week'...
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Promotion opportunity - participate in closed game betas
I've been thinking about this:
Community promotion sponsorship -- new game releases for community members
And an important part there is that the community member will get the game fast and will ask ...
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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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Gaming Stack Exchange swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package ...
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I want to fix this question but I can't!
There is a (rather poor) question in a tag I frequent:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22815/is-there-a-server-on-minecraft-that-i-am-allowed-any-block-i-want-just-by-typing
It was closed ...
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How do we address a posted question & answer pair that contains multiple moderation issues?
There's a question that was asked recently that has a few issues:
It's actually two questions in one (this was addressed in a comment).
Both questions have been answered before (as duplicates).
There ...
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Is the Meta blog link intended to be Stack Overflow's blog?
Now that we've got our blog rolling along well, we link to it at the bottom. But only on the main site. On the Meta site, it's linking to the Stack Overflow (and thus, more accurately, Stack Exchange) ...
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Large enough images break the Gaming blog layout.
I'm afraid tables (yes, actual tables <3) also might cause this very same issue.
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Is the community sponsorship program working a little too well?
This is somewhat in line with earlier questions of the type "Gaming.SE more like StarCraftII.SE am I right?":
Is gaming.stackexchange.com a “Minecraft and some other games” site?
Are there too many ...
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How to tag questions asking for a solution to a puzzle?
After reading Should we try to encourage at least 2 tags per question? I'm trying to add a second tag to my recent questions.
What's the proper tag for questions like "How do I solve this puzzle?" ...
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Allow tags to be blacklisted specifically from appearing in the HTML page title
The HTML page title feature which puts the most popular tag on the front of the question is a very useful tool. Problem is two-fold, however.
It kills our game-specific SEO if we try to implement a ...
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What to retag [chrome] to?
I noticed that right now, we're using chrome for HTML5 games, much like we use flash. I think that it's a little misleading, since almost all of them will work in FF4 or IE9 too. I understand that ...
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Should text with the spoiler markdown appear in question summaries?
I noticed that if a question uses the >! spoiler markdown within the first 200 characters, then the "hidden" text will still appear in the question summary that is displayed in search results.
For ...
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Gaming Questions of the Week #7
In an effort to try and keep the Question of the Week going, please submit your suggestions for this week!
Previous Questions of the Week:
First week's question - Minecraft's World Size
Second week'...
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How can we sculpt character/strategy build questions?
In this question, we softly addressed the acceptability of the subject. There's no contribution other than my own answer, and it's not exactly a very attended post, but build questions haven't really ...
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CSS provides dark-on-dark for visited links on Similar Questions sidebar
There's a cool new feature I just learned about while trying to write up a new Meta question. Now, I'm fond of dark backgrounds, but isn't dark text on dark background a bit on the Dark side of design ...
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Should I ask question which only I might be able to answer?
Let us say I have been playing a really old and obscure game and I've been looking all over the internet for an answer to a specific question about that game. Eventually, through much trial and error, ...
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The FAQ lists disallowed questions awkwardly.
Essentially, the FAQ is listing questions that we should not be asking on this site in the What kind of questions can I ask here? heading. Directly below that is the What kind of questions should I ...
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Stock comments for new users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Standard comments for flags/downvotes
What's a polite, clear, useful comment to throw up on posts by new users that may not understand the format or particular rules of our ...
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Gaming Questions of the Week #6
In an effort to try and keep the Question of the Week going, please submit your suggestions for this week!
Sample Questions:
First week's question - Minecraft's World Size
Second week's question - ...
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Quick link to tags
badp seems hell-bent on making sprays for TF2 for the sake of advertising the site, but he was remarking how long the domain name is, e.g.
Why do we have to have such a longass domain name :|
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Should there be a "blogged" tag?
For questions featured on QotW, or otherwise blogged about, is it worth having a blogged tag? It would be an easy way of seeing from a person's profile if they had questions which had been blogged ...
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Should we try to encourage at least 2 tags per question?
One thing Gaming.stackexchange has been wishy-washy in regards to tags. For instance, When should we use genre tags?
In addition to that, we have tags like murder, or dwarf-fortress-fun, protoss that ...
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If I got a correct answer for an identify-this-game question, should I fix the question? [closed]
Maybe this had already been asked, but I did look first so hopefully not.
Due to the nature of game identifying questions, it is not uncommon for the person who asked the question to get some of the ...
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Does the smp tag need a rename?
What do you think of the smp tag? Does it need to be renamed to something more easily understandable, or can it stand on its own? Does it even need to be its own tag?
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Should there be some way to designate answers as deprecated?
Most notably for minecraft, but I'm sure this happens with others as well, many questions and answers become irrelevant after a certain amount of time or after a game update.
So should there be some ...
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Is gaming.stackexchange.com a "Minecraft and some other games" site?
Just out of curiosity:
Having fun reading here on Gaming, it seems to me that 95% of all questions are about Minecraft.
Is this intended/true or should one even consider creating a Minecraft only ...
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How do we prefer to start our tag wikis?
There's two general approaches to how one starts a Tag Wiki Excerpt.
The Dictionary Method, in which we obviously believe you know what the word you're looking at is, so we don't repeat it. We just ...
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Closed Questions & Duplicates
We have at least one question ( https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/dosbox-abandonware-games-where-to-find-closed ) which was flagged as a duplicate of another question, and then that ...
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If a moderator closes and then reopens a question and then deletes all the comments, how do I even know what's up?
Today I had a question closed by a moderator, which seemed unreasonable, it was then reopened (i dunno if by the same moderator or someone else) and then all the comments on the question were deleted. ...
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Tag [Economies], [Economy] -> [Economics]
There were only 11 questions affected, both now altered.
I tried to set up a synonym so that future "Economies" tags get pushed to the singular again, but discovered I lack the ability to do so.
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The Memes of Arqade and its Chat
In the style of The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the internet, can now explode across the earth like a highly ...