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Questions about the acceptability of questions. This tag denotes discussions about what is acceptable to post on the site, and for what reasons in either direction. When using this tag, please be as specific about your question(s) as you can be, to improve the quality and applicability of answers.
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What sort of requests for external resources does this site allow?
Let's think about why a request for external resources is not desired. We want this site to be useful on its own. The information that helps the user, that answers the question, should be on this site …
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Are questions about e-sports on topic?
Taking the same tactic as Oak, let's look at the list of definitely on-topic things from the help center:
Gameplay strategies and tactics
Puzzle solving or obstacle clearing
Game mechanics and termi …
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Are questions about game saves on-topic?
Given that the game natively exports and imports these save files, and that this then determines what exists in-game, I see your question as asking how to create desired states in the game.
To me, th …
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Is it ok to ask a question from the POV of an unknowing person, when self-answering moments ...
In addition to the explanations you've already received, here's something else to consider:
Questions and answers are not just for the benefit of the original asker. They are for posterity. They are …
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Do we want to support "Is there a term for x" questions?
I'm having trouble understanding the motivation for limiting ourselves here.
As always, if a specific question doesn't have enough information to answer it, then close it for being unclear.
If the …
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Is asking us to identify a genre on-topic?
We had a question posted recently: There are games of this kind?
I voted to close this as a game-rec, but I'm not 100% sure that that's correct.
I think the asker basically wants to know if a certai …
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Are questions about hardware design decisions classified as "developer intent" questions?
I think this issue is getting blown way out of proportion.
Some of us would like unrealistically precise and rigid rules for classifying what is essentially amateur prose, but as I mentioned in the c …
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Are speedrunning techniques and strategies on-topic here?
If a speedrunning question gets closed, it won't be because it's about speedrunning.
Speed-runs are a part of gaming, and are therefore inherently on-topic. These questions will still need to be narr …
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Should we migrate this to English SE?
Someone recently asked a question about the difference between two English words: What's the difference between “Bug” and “Glitch”?
Although these terms are sometimes used in gaming, it really seems …
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Are questions about Skyrim's creation kit allowed here/on-topic?
This looks like the kind of thing that might've been on topic here, if there wasn't somewhere better already.
There are already questions about the Skyrim Creation Kit on GameDev SE, as Timelord64 po …
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Is font identification really a gaming skill?
I haven't spent a lot of time on Gaming.SE yet, but coming from other SEs and understanding the connection between expert knowledge in a subject and which questions should be answered, it seems pretty …
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