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Which tags are useless or blacklisted? [closed]
This question covers our list of "bad" tags, tags which don't make sense in general or in the specific context of the site. These include meta tags, tags that are redundant with the focus of ...
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The Subjective Tag
Are we going to have it? I know there is a discussion going on in the Meta.SO community about whether or not the Subjective Tag should just be removed.
There it would face considerably more problems,...
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What should we do to spread the word about this site?
Everyone who's reading the Meta site has an interest in spreading the word about the site. That will increase the user base, give us better questions, and give us better answers. What kind of things ...
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Can I create an "article" by posting a question and an answer directly?
Let's say that for a time I have been researching a specific question or topic on my own and I've come up with an answer. The answer seems to me to be complete and satisfactory to my needs. At this ...
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Should we allow "list of X"-questions?
Many questions currently on the site are things like "Give me a list of options for X".
There is a decent amount of precedence for these kinds of questions being discouraged on StackExchange sites. ...
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Professional game developers and NDAs
Assumption: we want as many professionals on the site asking as many "long-tail" expert questions as possible. From Joel Spolsky's post re: firearm SE proposal:
Excellent suggestion. One ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Should the FAQ have a restriction on time-dependent Questions?
For example, the UnityAnswers FAQ:
Don't write things that will be
irrelevant in a few days.
This is in response to Doom 3 Codebase release details?
I was going to comment it with a link from ...
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Logo Proposals for Game Development
Please post as answers below, your logo proposals for this site.
Rules:
Original artwork only.
You need to have a copy of your submission in a vector format.
Stolen from here
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"Discussion" tag in meta is probably redundant
How's that for meta?
But seriously, aren't most of the topics in here "discussion"? Unless they're bugs, I guess.
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Is Unity turning into our jQuery?
I hope not.... just sayin'
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What should the standards be for editing posts?
I've spent some time editing other people's posts to fix various trivial errors, and I was wondering what kind of standards make sense for our site as to what types of edits are appropriate for our ...
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Bounty on community wiki questions
How to write a network game? was converted to a wiki, but the bounty wasn't removed. Bug?
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Moderator Nominations
Some guidelines:
Each nomination should be a separate answer. Link the name to the user's profile so we can see their activity.
The nominee should indicate their acceptance by commenting on (or ...
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How do I answer to an answer?
I see people starting discussions based on an answer, but I can only seem to reply to the original question?
I must be missing something for sure.
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Should the "design" tag encompass architecture AND game design questions?
I'm a game designer and my main area of expertise is that, game design. While i find the technical aspects of a game program interesting, I expected finding game design related questions when ...
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Accepting Answers
I'm getting the sense that we have trouble accepting answers to questions. I don't know if this is because many of the questions asked are asking for general input to a question rather than a specific ...
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Answer with more votes than question has views?
This question's best answer has 37 upvotes, yet the question itself has only 33 views. Even if they were the same, surely not every person who viewed the question would upvote an answer?
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Do mod- and map-making questions belong here?
Currently at gaming meta there are discussions about Do “mod-development” questions belong here? and Do “map-editor” questions belong here?. There was also a suggestion to send these questions to ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
Since this is one of the 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta...
What should go in our FAQ?
Most of the FAQ is boilerplate, but we need to determine the on-topic and off-topic subjects that go ...
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The word "game" in tags is redundant.
I've noticed a few tags of the form "game-design" and "game-engine". Well, yeah. It's about games. We're on the Gamedev beta.
I've gone and stripped out "game" from all of these, just to get it done ...
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Required tags (discussion, bug, etc.) duplicated?
For some reason, when I try to add any of the discussion, bug, or status-bydesign tags to my questions here on meta, that tag is listed in the suggestions list twice. Then, once I choose one of them, ...
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gamedev tag is useless
I see some questions tagged as gamedev. A similar issue was addressed on Stack Overflow Meta a while back.
Recommendation: This tag is useless and should never be used, since everything on this Game ...
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Are questions about how to design an implementation of certain parts of a game appropriate?
When I'm stuck on some aspect in one of the many dead-end game projects I start, can I ask for advice about how to design it here?
If I have an idea about how I want something to work functionally, ...
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What is Community wiki?
I'm seeing posts show up that are labeled "community wiki." What are these? It's not a tag and I can't list them all. Can anyone explain?
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What to do when there's no satisfactory answer?
What should we do about questions that get one or more answers, but after 24 hours, none are acceptable as the accepted answer?
Do we just let the question go without an accepted answer?
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How to move game-development tagged questions from Stack Overflow to here?
There are currently 1,475 questions tagged game-development on Stack Overflow. These would all be great seed material for this new Game Development site. Would it be a good idea for a moderator to ...
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Possible bug in listing tags?
This could be more of a stack exchange bug, but I haven't seen it anywhere but here.
This question is tagged "xna" but the page to list the tag as nothing in it. Has anyone else seen this? Is is a ...
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Programming Questions: Here or "Belongs on Stackoverflow"?
I know the features wouldn't be installed until this SE makes it out of the public beta. But in the event that it does, I think that this is something that we should be prepared for.
What would the ...
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What should our domain be? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...