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Is the goal to help people or build an arbitrary resource of curated questions?
tl;dr: A bit of both.
Stack Overflow (and later, the entire SE Network including Arqade) was built primarily to solve three problems with 'advice'-style communities on the net:
Well-Hidden Knowledge ...
RobotnikMod
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What, if any, policy changes should we make to account for the recent changes to the AUP regarding sexually explicit content?
In my personal opinion, sexually explicit games are probably in-scope. Mainstream games like Baldur's Gate 3 have included sexually explicit material, so I think we can reach that conclusion without ...
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What can we do if some site copies our content?
If Quora wants to pay for that kind of low-effort content, they're free to do that. They seem to only use the title, which isn't really enough in my opinion to make it plagiarism. There are only so ...
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Should we allow unregistered users to post questions and answers?
Can we run an experiment with it off for a month? I would suggest mid-December to mid-January to capture some Christmas traffic. If we see a spike in spam without a lot of good quality anonymous ...
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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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Hello, my name is Self-Promoting Spammer
By our technical definition, yes, you are a spammer. You've answered three questions promoting your tool. One of them is even a self answer.
Looking at it in a more positive light...I think there's ...
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
I think that we need to have a flat-out ban on all ChatGPT content.
It is not possible to avoid plagiarism. Others have discussed the citation problem, which is important. But if someone is simply ...
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Is asking if a specific behavior violates the terms of service allowed?
Personally, I see no problem with your proposed question. You are simply asking about a fairly benign thing (creating a second account for an MMO, with no ill-intent) and wanting to know if this would ...
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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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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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Does exploiting a demo to access portions of the game locked behind the paid version constitute as Piracy?
In general: This is a bit of a gray area. It's not always obvious whether a developer strictly intended for a demo to allow something, and developers (usually) do intend for players to download and ...
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What to do with an overwritten question with an open bounty?
I have removed the bounty and rolled back the edit. In the future, if this comes up again, feel free to raise a custom moderator flag, since moderators have the ability to remove a bounty, refunding ...
UnionhawkMod
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
Moderation should focus on what the user is posting rather than how the user got their information.
Cases such as the one you mentioned, in which the answerer did not credit ChatGPT and simply ...
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Is the automatic deletion of "abandoned" questions a good thing?
It probably isn't the most ideal system, but its been that way for a long time, and I don't think we can change that for our site alone.
While there is a community process in place to undelete posts, ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Result?
This came up so infrequently that it's pretty difficult to make a policy decision based on the results. On the other hand, this came up so infrequently and was such a low burden that, to me, it makes ...
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Is it ok to repost my month-old unanswered question about a PS5 controller from Super User?
I'd say the rule about cross-posting is more to stop people from just spamming their question across multiple related sites, without taking the time to engage in a positive manner with a single site.
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RobotnikMod
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Would this screenshot be acceptable - as a Screenshot of the Week submission or on the main site?
Looks fine to me—it's fairly typical video game content. It comes across more like stylized abstract art than inappropriate content to me.
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How exactly did this answer violate our Piracy policy?
Was that answer unintentionally advocating pirated content (despite the website saying it doesn't support piracy)?
As far as I could tell, yes. The purpose of the pages in the answer is for users to ...
WipqoznMod
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
AI generated answers should at the very least cite what tool was used to generate them. If a user does not disclose that their post was generated by an AI, it should be flagged like any other ...
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Is the automatic deletion of "abandoned" questions a good thing?
No.
The automatic deletion of "abandoned" questions is generally not a good thing for Arqade. I think the current criteria for Community bot (Roomba) deletion, especially the view count ...
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Why was an edit to include information from comments reverted by a moderator?
This question is based on a slight misunderstanding. It's true that posts are a collaborative effort, but that doesn't mean post authorship is completely nonexistant. Just a look at the voting and ...
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Should we allow unregistered users to post questions and answers?
Since the community is in favour of the suggestion made by MBraedley, we've gone ahead and had Stack Exchange re-enable posting from unregistered users on the site. In January we'll review the data, ...
WipqoznMod
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What is the policy for a good question, but where the given use case violates a EULA?
We are completely against users asking or answering questions that involve illegal activity. So much so that if you merely imply that you're pirating a game, your post will be removed.
However, ...
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
An outright ban on AI-generated answers may throw the baby out with the bathwater. There could be useful AI-generated answers, especially if someone decides to train one specifically for that purpose....
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
The problem with ChatGPT and the reason why it got banned on the main site was because ChatGPT does not "know" anything and because of that often gives inaccurate or even completely wrong ...
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What, if any, policy changes should we make to account for the recent changes to the AUP regarding sexually explicit content?
We have always allowed posts about romance options in RPGs. Arguably, descriptions of those scenes could be considered sexually explicit. Note that sexually explicit material isn't limited to photos ...
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Should we ban AI-generated content on Arqade?
Really, and I have not been part of the ChatGPT conversation on the main SE site; to me a good answer is a good answer.
But I know there are pitfalls to that opinion. Like ChatGPT could be used to try ...
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Should we allow unregistered users to post questions and answers?
Since the registration requirement was implemented in early 2022 as a temporary measure to combat network-wide spam and the Community Managers simply forgot to remove it after the spam wave subsided, ...
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Why was an edit to include information from comments reverted by a moderator?
This does not apply to third party comments. Otherwise that would be kind of a loophole. Think about it, you can't make drastic changes to other people's posts but if you comment it then you're ...
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