Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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A little bit of Thank You to the undervalued janitors of the site
So, with the recent changes on Rep, I got bumped over the few points I was missing to get access to moderator tools.
With that, came the possibility of seeing deleted stuff, and with that possibility,...
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So long and thanks for all the fish
Due to this farewell and associated persistent abusive behaviour from SE, I will no longer participate in any sites until such a time as SE becomes less abusive.
My thanks go to all users of this (...
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Stack Exchange general moderation and curation strike begins today (concluded as of August 7th)
As of today, community members and diamond moderators across the Stack Exchange network are commencing a general moderation strike in protest of bad policy and worse treatment from Stack Overflow, Inc ...
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Why was my question closed as too broad, unclear, or opinion-based?
There are a good number of questions, especially from users new to the site, that get closed as too broad or opinion-based. This is a post we can link them to for more guidance than what comments can ...
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“Please welcome Valued Associates: #958 - V2Blast […]”—Congratulations!
I just saw this link in the “Featured on Meta” bar, and thought it would be appropriate for us to also have a place to congratulate @V2Blast on the new job!
Please welcome Valued Associates: #958 - ...
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Moderation-related comments seem friendlier recently!
(This is related to one of my previous posts on moderation, but I didn't think it would be appropriate to add another answer there.)
Recently I've noticed that when comments are deleted, questions (...
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Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic? [2015]
Game recommendation questions are sadly NOT on topic here on RPG.SE.
This means the following kinds of questions are off topic:
I want to play (details) kind of game/story. What game should I use to ...
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Please do bring "bad stuff" to mod attention if it doesn't look like we saw it
In some cases, SE moderation by the community is working too well... And when content gets deleted via system auto-response to flags, or power user editing/delete activity, we the mods never actually ...
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The [random] tag is no more
Unless anyone has any objections or wants to salvage/synonym random somehow, I'm going to burninate it in a couple of days. Randomness itself doesn't seem like a useful area of expertise, and the tag ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Role-playing Games's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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When discussing the “don’t guess the system” policy, let’s make a special effort to assume everyone is acting in good faith
Community discussions about our “don’t guess the system” policy happen from time to time, and it has been my observation that these discussions can often get...what’s a good word for it...intense? I ...
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Vote to Close with different reasons make it seem like you agree with majority reason
In the case of this question, there were 3 VTC based on it being a duplicate, 1 VTC based on it being opinion based, and 1 VTC (mine) based on the question being unclear.
It was closed as a duplicate;...
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Statistics on RPG.se Questions Closed and Reopened in 2016
Shog9 has put together a bunch of statistics on question closing and reopening in 2016 for all the sites on MSE: 2016: a year in closing. I've pulled in the data for just RPG.se here, for the ...
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The first annual RPG Games-fest! (Proposed Rules)
Inspired by cleanupathon, taken from highest upvoted answers here.
This post shall be for rules and discussion related to the first contest. This intro bit will be cleaned up after we start.
The RPG ...
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The [multiple-systems] tag has been burninated
I've just burninated multiple-systems. I'm leaving this post for record-keeping.
It had the following tag wiki excerpt (and no full tag wiki):
For questions that involve multiple rules systems at ...
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