Timeline for How is the community doing? [2018]
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| May 12, 2018 at 17:23 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | @yakk that's a fine attempt at logic twist, but link only answers aren't "not an answer" in some cosmic logical sense, they are poor and disallowed answers. Posting it in a comment isn't ok because poor, partial, etc. answers in comments are also not OK. rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6533/… | |
| May 11, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Yakk | @nitsua60 A link to an answer is not an answer. A non-answer consisting of a link posted as an answer is closed as "not an answer". Deleting a link to resources because it is a partial answer doesn't make sense in that context; it is "not an answer", it is a sign pointing where an answer may be. Do you have a link to a policy about deleting comments that links, as opposed to answers? | |
| May 7, 2018 at 22:33 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @Andy D&D 5e came out in 2014. (play test began IIRC 2012) ... RPG.SE began in 2010 ish ... ;) | |
| May 2, 2018 at 20:46 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | Hey Andy, just a note on your “adopted as-is for D&D 5e” and “a roleplaying game” (my emphasis, quoting the original edit of your post): beware that RPG.se regularly covers dozens or hundreds of RPGs other than D&D 5e, and that there are thousands of RPGs in existence that we potentially cover. Being careful to not mistake RPG.se as for only D&D 5th edition can help avoid some common faux pas, like writing answers for the wrong game or neglecting to mention the game a question is about. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 16:41 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | So oddly, we have thought about it. In fact, Stack Exchange has, and there's guidance that's normative for all the other sites. See the SE blog post "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective": stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective RPGs are not completely opinion-based - answers can derive from experience, or they can just be people wagging their jaws. There are plenty of forums for the latter - SE is not a forum, as nitsua60 points out. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 13:38 | history | edited | nitsua60Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
hundreds of RPGs live here, not just one
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| May 1, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | Andy | Just to be clear here, I am most definitely not criticising people who are doing their best to implement rules. I'm not complaining about people stifling my creativity or something. The rules are made and moderators implement those rules. I think the rules as they stand have a negative effect on the site usefulness. I think they are also likely to discourage new posters... Or those that think form should suit purpose. Better. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | nitsua60 Mod | @Bloodcinder True. I, for one, delete comment-answers the moment I see them regardless of whether it looks like the author incorporated, rejected, or even saw them. And to be clear, I'm even talking about things that seem to newish users as helpful and innocuous, like "you should check out xyz.org/essay-on-your-thing, it's really useful." (Nvm earlier version--we're simul-commenting. Edited for standalone-ness.) | |
| May 1, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | Bloodcinder | ...And if "some sort of answer" is posted in a comment then that's not helpful to the site in general because all the normal mechanisms available for searching, voting, and displaying answers is useless when an answer is buried somewhere in a comment. When answers-in-comments get deleted, there is almost always a warning to re-post as an answer, to make sure it gets categorized in a way that can be more helpful. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Bloodcinder | "Any comment that could be interpreted as helpful ( some sort of an answer ) gets deleted." This usually occurs after the information in the comment has been incorporated into the question or answer through revisions. The purpose of comments is for question/answer improvement, so once the improvement is handled (or declined) then the comment doesn't serve any purpose anymore. Essentially, comments are like proof-reader's marks. They help improve the draft of the document, but eventually you redact them. Their purpose has been served. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 13:01 | comment | added | nitsua60 Mod | See also we are not a forum and my question is better-suited to a forum for some of the historical discussion around what Stacks are good at vs. not. To be clear: it may be wise to periodically revisit those notions, so thanks for bringing it up! | |
| May 1, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | On that last paragraph, see Why are site comments getting deleted? — and all we're doing is actually enforcing Stack Exchange rules that Stack Overflow can't enforce because the volume of work there is too high so they focus on higher priority issues. As for opinion oriented stuff, is there anything specific you think we're missing support for that we should support? We've done our best to adapt the rules to our circumstances and it tends to work fairly well for us, but we're open to improvements. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 12:12 | history | answered | Andy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |