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13 questions linked to/from Why is one +21 question On Hold when a similar question is ok with +53 votes?
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How is the community doing? [2017] [duplicate]
We wanted to take a minute to check in and see how the community feels like things are going on the site. A little more than a year ago, we had a pretty lengthy discussion about site problems; it ...
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How much subjectiveness is OK?
This came up during the proposal phase on Area 51 -- and I felt at the time that unlike many other Stack Exchange sites, a site on RPGs will be largely subjective. Sure, there are definitive answers (...
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Are campaign research questions on topic? [2012]
There is a category of questions on this site that seriously pollutes our scope. Taking these questions to their logical maximum (which I see us continually approaching) everything under the sun has ...
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Are campaign research questions on topic? [2010] [duplicate]
This conversation was continued two years later with a different conclusion based on the experience gleaned from enacting this one.
I was looking at What should I read/watch for information about the ...
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Are game recommendation questions on topic? [2011] [duplicate]
This Q&A is out of date - see the new answer (no) in Are Game Recommendation Questions On Topic, Revisited
Many Stack Exchange sites, like the similar gaming.SE, do not allow game recommendation ...
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Pre-made comments: A resource-gathering & workshopping thread
Pre-made comments are awesome. They're also super powerful tools. Let's workshop some new ones and improve the old ones!
You've probably seen pre-made comments[i] used across the site by moderators, ...
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How do we ask and answer subjective questions?
On RPG.SE, we deal with a fair number of questions that don't have a strict, objectively correct answer. Some game rules questions do, but we also have a good number of questions about how to run a ...
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My question got too popular - what should I do now?
A few days ago I was discussing an amusing RPG concept with a friend and decided to ask a question about it on rpg.stackexchange to see if the community has good ideas: How to let my players fail ...
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How do you vote?
When I was commenting on the RAW meta question, I started to document how I vote on answers.
Here is mine.
I always up vote an answer if they answer the question, even if I think the answer is from ...
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Can we bounty things on meta?
While researching up some examples for my recent suggestion for a new close reason, I found this. It's pretty awesome, so I want to bounty it. But I can't find the bounty button! After some ...
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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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I want to ask for recommendations, but that's off topic. Is there any way to ask my question?
Recommendation questions have been off-topic since August 2015. If I need a recommendation, how can I get help now?
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Should Bad Answer Attraction be a Custom Close Reason?
Writing this has convinced me 'is drawing too many bad answers that aren't getting dealt with properly' is a close reason we really should add to our custom close reason list. Thoughts?
I remember ...
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