Questions tagged [discussion]
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A thank-you to you all
I am retiring as a moderator this week.
I made this decision with my heart a few months ago, made it with my head and let my fellow moderators know a few weeks ago, and now that the paperwork is ...
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Can we affirm that RPG.SE embraces a plurality of playstyles?
I've recently had the dubious pleasure to have been told both that the high visibility of RAW-centric optimising online is an illusion and nobody actually plays that way in a real game, and that old-...
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Use real headers instead of fake headers
It's a somewhat common habit at RPG.se to use bold sentences to make the appearance of a header for a section of text, rather than using our existing header formatting. This is probably because it's a ...
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Purveyors of fine cheese!
[modeled on this well-posed and highly ranked meta over at WB.SE]
We've got some answers that've really gone above-and-beyond in answering rigorously and completely some superlative questions. And by ...
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Officially stepping down as moderator
I know it's been a while so it's not going to be any surprise to hear that I'm handing in my diamond.
As for reasons, it's multifaceted. Certainly I got burnt out on a lot of issues (handling the ...
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to every thing there is a season
Thank you all for this opportunity.
TL;DR: so long, and thanks for all the flags.
I will soon be stepping down as a moderator on RPGSE. (Effective shortly after the conclusion of the 2020 election.)
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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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How do we handle a desire to challenge the frame of a question?
Sometimes, someone asks a question that seems like it might suffer from the XY Problem (asking about your attempted solution instead of your actual problem) and you want to point that out. Or you ...
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In which a doppelgreener becomes somewhat less shiny
I’m stepping down from moderation soon and putting away my shiny diamond. Just like nitsua60 I’ll be sticking around for a bit longer post-election, so this is not immediate. (Don’t worry, this isn’t ...
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RPGs by and for white nationalists
So, I see RPG Stack Exchange has a MYFAROG tag, and MYFAROG questions in that tag.
MYFAROG is a game by Varg Vikernes, an infamous Norwegian murderer/arsonist who espouses white-nationalist and "...
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Don't signal your edits in text
To amplify the bullet from here:
Stop using the "Edit:" syntax of forums. We have explicit revision histories on everything, so everything should read as if the best version was the first ...
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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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“Is something wrong?” Yes: Too much moderation
RPG's users and moderators have a number of problems as summarized in this question's answers. However, several mods have said that they can't accept meta feedback in the form of anything other than ...
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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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Should this stack ban ChatGPT?
Over at Meta Stack Exchange, the guidance to date is that each Stack Exchange network site needs to decide for itself whether to ban ChatGPT-generated posts. RPG SE Meta is the correct format for ...
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