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Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
This is a community wiki post anyone can edit.
Its purpose is to compile a list of Game Dev SE posts that would significantly benefit from MathJax/LaTeX markup, as part of the use-case argument for ...
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
Yes, we should enable the limit on Community bumps.
We should use the same threshold that's been shown to work adequately for the Expression Engine, Hardware Recommendations, and Japanese ...
DMGregoryMod
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Should or shouldn't we introduce a format to ask about game-engine suitability?
"Which engine do I use?" questions are just too broad. There are too many confounding factors in determining which to use.
Cost
Asker's skill with relevant languages
Suitability to team size
Which ...
AlmoMod
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Placing on hold / closing too quickly
In an ideal SE, only those with a certain number of points in a given tag should be able to nominate questions using that tag, for closure, as it seems that some pretty good questions with pretty good ...
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Adding a tag for CocosSharp?
Because nobody needed one.
Tags only exist when there is a question tagged with them, deleting a tag is simply untagging it from all questions.
If you have a question about cocossharp for the site ...
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Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
We're going ahead and enabling this, as you've shown plenty of examples of cases where it'd be useful.
As requested, the inline delimiters will be changed to ...
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Placing on hold / closing too quickly
In addition to the answer that directly addresses the question I would like to add that on Stack Exchange it is actually ideal if a question is put on hold as quickly as possible. This gives the OP ...
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
Y'all have clearly done your homework here and I appreciate that.
Doing some math, it looks like you currently have about 1800 questions that are eligible for bumping by the Community user, which is ...
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Can we make a Game on this site?
Not likely.
Game Dev Stack Exchange gets operated and maintained by Stack Overflow, Inc. That's the company maintaining Stack Overflow plus a couple of hundred other sites.
GDSE's mission is as a Q&...
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Suggestion for New Tag: unity-2017
We currently have unity, and unity5 as tags to differentiate general unity questions from questions about specific features to that unity version.
That's not exactly the case.
Taking a look at the ...
VaillancourtMod
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Is there a place for asking for general debugging help?
First off, this meta post discussing 'debug my code' criteria covers why these types of questions are frequently considered off-topic &/or of low value. Basically, this is the system doing what it ...
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
I know this is a rather old question, but nothing appears to have been done about it yet.
I would argue that they should both be synonyms of graphic-effects, glow and bloom seem a bit too 'low-level'...
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Accepted
Should users be able to receive reputation by having accepted edits?
There is already a reward for having accepted edits. For example, on a post you recently submitted an edit to, I approved your edit and made some additional edits. When I approved your edit, you ...
HouseMod
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
I don't think they're synonymous.
When I think of Bloom I think of Wikipedia's definition
The effect produces fringes (or feathers) of light extending from the borders of bright areas in an image, ...
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Accepted
Would questions about game-engine recommendations be on-topic, given they have clearly stated needs?
Looking at the help centre:
What topics can I ask about here?
...
and it is not about...
how to get started making a game
what language/engine/SDK you should learn
where free ...
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Feature request: Grant chat privilege
I like the spirit of the idea, solving the ever-present problem of new users who need chat and can't have it. Most of the rest of my post is purely devil's advocacy in the name of taking care to do ...
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Can we get a cocos2d-x tag?
Yes, we can!
This question felt lonely without an answer.
VaillancourtMod
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Can we expand our migration options?
From this answer from Noctrine,
The pre-defined migration paths are set up based on how common manual migrations are to the other site.
Remember, you can always flag as "other" with the ...
VaillancourtMod
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Is there a place for asking for general debugging help?
There's a gray-area allowance (from my personal opinion and observation of others on this site) if the problem is a common problem or common mistake in game dev contexts even if not quite game ...
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Accepted
I thought the enter-key would make a new line while typing a comment, but instead, it submitted it b4 I was done writing. So
This is a site wide feature & has already been raised on SE meta.
The presently stated rationale is that line breaks would lead to longer, more conversational style commenting. Comments are ...
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Creating a Sandbox for questions
We don't need this.
Game Development Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professional and independent game developers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network ...
VaillancourtMod
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Creating a Sandbox for questions
In part, this is what the review queue is for. Special attention is called out toward helping new users.
If we had as much traffic as Stack Overflow, we might also have a triage, but that's not yet ...
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Why never any notification of moderator elections?
Hmmm, currently for SO, I see a notice for the current election cycle when I mouse over my inbox. But when I view all my messages, it doesn't show up as a proper message that I can click & read. ...
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