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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
This sounds like a good idea.
Listening to the community is a good idea. Experimenting is a good idea. Setting a specific time to review the results is a good idea.
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My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
/r/tipofmyjoystick
/r/tipofmyjoystick is a subreddit dedicated to answering game identification questions and allows identification questions without any sort of assets. Before posting there, make ...
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Please don't vote to close spam questions
Flagging spam as 'Spam' is already the most extreme action you can take - with enough spam flags raised on a post, it will be auto-deleted (without needing moderator intervention) and the user account ...
RobotnikMod
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Let's test out the Modded Minecraft Tech Support close reason
status-completed
This close reason is now active. We reviewed the stats in the following post, with majority community support for leaving the close reason in place:
Modded Minecraft Close Reason - ...
RobotnikMod
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How can it be determined whether a question speculates about developer intent?
The question was closed incorrectly because of a slightly inaccurate title and because it asks "Why?".
Most likely, the close voters read the question as "Why did the developer decide to give the ...
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My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
If the game you remember has a clear Science Fiction, Fantasy, or other Speculative Fiction theme, then you can ask on our sister-site:
Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
Please see their ...
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Where can I ask technical troubleshooting questions about modded Minecraft?
This will depend entirely on the mod that you're having issues with, but:
Reach out to the Developer or Community Team surrounding the mod
Minecraft has stabilised a lot over the years, and most of ...
RobotnikMod
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Problem with understanding an incorrectly closed valid question
I believe Zoma was incorrect: if you have made progress on your current issue so far or attempted to resolve the issue yourself to no success, the correct course of action is to edit your open ...
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Is there a duplicate for that? Pokémon GO Edition
Here is a list of the most commonly repeatedly asked questions. These are almost all related to technical issues that people are having with the game.
Pokemon Go login issues after update
Is it ...
DragonrageMod
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Why was this question closed for having illegal content?
I consider homebrewing a subset of modding your console. And wouldn't you know it, we already have discussed our stance on that:
What's the official stance on hacked/modded consoles?
both of the ...
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My request for recommendations was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
The Gamingsuggestions subreddit on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/
This is a Reddit community focused specifically on suggesting games to play based on criteria given by the user. ...
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Question posted in a language other than english and was closed. Should I translate it and vote to reopen it?
No, only the asker should translate their own posts. The question itself isn't the problem, it's communicating with the asker.
Once the post is translated, every other possible step of a question's ...
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Should we reword the closure text for duplicate questions?
It seems the consensus is to change the wording to be geared towards editing the current question, rather than asking another. I propose the quote should be:
This question has been asked before ...
Timmy JimMod
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Re-evaluating the text of our Game Identification close reason
Suggested Close reason:
Our support for video game identification is for situations where you find a game in a video, advertisement, news article, movie and so on, and you have a picture, video/audio ...
RobotnikMod
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Modded Minecraft Close Reason - Let's Review
I think the Modded Minecraft close reason serves a good purpose and should remain. While I think the Unreleased/Illegal close reason was also useful, we get more off-topic Modded Minecraft posts than ...
Timmy JimMod
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League of Legends (again) and "opinion based" questions
The question was basically asking for a recommendation of which champions to play. It's not useful to future visitors of the site, especially because any given answer could very well be invalidated in ...
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When do I Vote to Close?
If a question is unclear and it can't be answered in its current state, voting to close it as "Unclear what you're asking" is perfectly fine, I'd even say it's expected.
Should the question then be ...
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My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
The Bridge
If you have at least 20 reputation, you're welcome to join us in The Bridge, Arqade's main chat room. Most of the regulars have played quite a few games, and might be able to identify the ...
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Can we have less "Unclear what you're asking" close votes?
Too Broad is for when the question is answerable, but the answer would be too long for our format.
Unclear What You're Asking is for when the question can't be usefully answered because it doesn't ...
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Should this question about colors depicting game item rarity have been re-opened?
No, this question should not have been reopened; it clearly meets the criteria for game identification. It's asking for the first game that started this, with this line:
Which game starts this ...
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Re-evaluating the text of our Game Identification close reason
Alternative Close reason:
Game identification questions that rely solely on memory are off topic here. If you find a game in a video, advertisement, news article, movie and so on, and you have a ...
DragonrageMod
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My request for recommendations was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
The Bridge
If you have at least 20 reputation, you're welcome to join us in The Bridge, Arqade's main chat room. Most of the regulars have played quite a few games, and might be able to suggest a game,...
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Should we replace one of our close reasons with modded Minecraft tech support?
I would choose to replace the "unreleased or illegal" close vote reason.
It's the close reason that used the least
It's easy to identify - Unreleased game questions are obvious and are usually off-...
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Does 'I can only answer this with videos' suggest a question is too broad?
I agree that that question is too broad. The "What types of questions should I avoid asking?" page says
Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that ...
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Duplicate Questions: A New Look
I agree with the idea in general, and I've argued for some subset of this in the past. The most problematic case in my view was the one where the new question is a very specific one, and closed as a ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
A record of questions affected by this meta post:
(I feel it's helpful to record results to evaluate if a change was effective or not.)
What do I get from playing a Seasonal character without RoS? ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible