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Minecraft crash questions should be made off-topic: yes/no?
tl;dr: Yes, lets end the pain and suffering.
I propose we should allow only Vanilla Minecraft & Minecraft Pocket/Console edition crashes & issues.
I feel that any attempt to segregate mods ...
RobotnikMod
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Minecraft crash questions should be made off-topic: yes/no?
Yes, let's make them off topic and be done with it already.
Expertise
One problem I see in keeping them on-topic is that we basically require the people answering be Java programmers. Not only that, ...
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Minecraft crash questions should be made off-topic: yes/no?
Trying to play devil's advocate here:
There is value in keeping these questions. Not a whole lot, granted, but some. We can have expertise in this area; it will require a very good understanding of ...
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What to do about flood of low-quality Minecraft questions?
If the question is just crap, you can downvote. With four or more downvotes (net), the question will disappear from the main page.
If the question has been asked before and has a decent answer, ...
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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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Separate site for Minecraft
If you are not happy to see any tags, you can use "Ignored Tags" panel to ignore them. After that these tags won't appear on main page or in search for you.
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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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Modded Minecraft server tech support
Let's keep it off-topic.
Any minecraft questions that have something to do with tech support and mods are off-topic. Let's keep it that way.
The questions being on server tech support may make them ...
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What to do before asking a minecraft-commands question?
The first thing you should do before asking a question is read this guide to Minecraft Commands, to make sure that you know the basics.
The second thing to do is to make sure to search Arqade to see ...
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Why do we have so many Minecraft tags?
There are 3 types of tags beyond the base Minecraft tag here:
Core parts of minecraft: things like Redstone, Commands, Resource pack. These are usually quite complicated and a game in themselves to ...
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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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What exactly is technical support?
My line for tech support is essentially this:
Does Minecraft currently work?
Is it unmodded?
If both of those questions come up as no, then I hit the close button.
Because that was essentially at ...
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We need a minecraft trouble shooting tag because it has a large portion of questions
No. The technical-issues tag exists, and should be used in these cases. There is no reason to have a specific tag for this.
UnionhawkMod
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We shouldn't have a close reason specific to a single game. What is a better close reason?
The close reason is very specifically: Technical Support of Modded Minecraft. Here's the definition from the Help Center:
Troubleshooting and diagnosis of modded Minecraft, including crashes, ...
RobotnikMod
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Can "What is the seed for this Minecraft image" questions be asked?
I think a problem with this question is that it is impossible to answer.
There isn't a tool to identify the seed of a world by inputting the appearance of the screenshot, and people who play Minecraft ...
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Where do I post computercraft questions?
You should ask your ComputerCraft programming questions to StackOverflow with tag computercraft.
You can ask non-programming questions like (not sure what I can include, I didn't use ComputerCraft ...
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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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The great Minecraft tag family cleanup!
The following merges/renames have been completed:
Merged/renamed without synonyms:
minecraft→minecraft-java-edition
minecraft-console→minecraft-legacy-console
minecraft-windows-10→minecraft-bedrock-...
UnionhawkMod
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New Minecraft proposed Site. What do you guys think?
Minecraft is in-scope here. Always has been, always will be. This is a periodic proposal, but at the end of the day, Arqade is well equipped to handle Minecraft questions, and your proposal will ...
UnionhawkMod
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Tagging for Minecraft Bedrock Edition
How Minecraft versions are organized
There are three main Minecraft codebases. To simplify, I'm gonna call them Java, Bedrock and Console.
Following are the versions of Java codebase:
Classic, ...
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Are questions regarding Minecraft's commands and syntax eligible for flagging?
No, these should not be flagged, unless they do not fit the Arqade format or are duplicates.
Asking about commands in Minecraft is on-topic. It even has it's own tag - minecraft-commands, which had ...
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Pocket Edition is now Bedrock. Why PE is not a synonym? When should the PE tag be used?
This had been discussed before here, but without a conclusion (or really any wider response at all). I had written an answer there, but in the >2 years since then I learned more about the different ...
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Can "What is the seed for this Minecraft image" questions be asked?
No, unless there is enough interest and specialty (e.g. the image appears on the splash screen), such questions have no utility to future readers, and therefore goes against Stack Exchange's ultimate ...
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Can we please stop using inline code for formatting full Minecraft commands?
I believe that this should be left up to discretion of the editors. Look at the following examples:
When I see:
Use /tellraw instead of /say.
I think:
Perfect.
When I see:
Here is my full command:
...
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Where should we direct users asking questions on technical support for modded games?
If you want to, you direct them to ask the mod creators for support. Beyond that, there's not really much we can do for them.
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Proper Flag for Modded Minecraft Questions
While @Wipqozn offers a correct solution for voting to close, people with under 3k rep cannot vote to close or flag as off topic with custom reasons. Thus, in my opinion, they should just flag as ...
DragonrageMod
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Minecraft crash questions should be made off-topic: yes/no?
Tech Support should be completely off-topic
Tech support as a topic, in general, has exactly the same problems that Minecraft tech support questions have. To be clear, by "tech support" I ...
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Why we should make a flag reason for closing modded Minecraft tech support questions
The problem with this suggestion is... we've hit our cap on custom off-topic close reasons; we can't have more than 4. If we wanted to fit in modded Minecraft crashes, we'd either have to merge two ...
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Update the off-topic reason for "Technical support for non-vanilla Minecraft" in the help-center
How do we define tech support?
When I argued the case for modded Minecraft tech support to be off-topic - I was referring to ones where users would post a question similar to the following:
Minecraft ...
RobotnikMod
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Does someone know more about "Minecraft – Greek mythology edition"?
Minecraft Greek Mythology is a so called Mashup Pack:
A mashup pack is a combination of Skin Pack, Texture Pack, and a Map
all rolled up into one. These have been common on Minecraft Console
...
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