Questions tagged [etiquette]
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Asking about "mooning"
So, this question is gaining some attention due to its content - specifically about the act of "mooning".
Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by ...
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Necro-Closing Spam
Over the last couple of weeks, my review queue has been mostly filled with close / reopen request for questions from 2011.
This feels like a waste of everyone's time. It is a waste of time for the ...
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Should RPG.SE enforce not enforcing a specific standard for handling gender pronouns?
This is a follow up to our standing guidance on pronoun use in Q&As around the site: Should RPG.SE enforce a specific standard for handling gender pronouns?
The question asks:
Should RPG.SE ...
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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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What is the etiquette for adding supplemental information to a good answer?
On this question, a user provided an excellent mathematical derivation of a numerical question that had been asked and provide a plot of the results. I thought that a different form of plot was a ...
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If a question is marked as a duplicate or is closed, should I delete it?
If a question is marked as a duplicate or is closed, should I delete it?
I really don't know if I can clarify that any more.
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What is the user policy for up-voting on comments, incorporating the advice of the comment, and then flagging the comment as no longer needed?
While answering questions I frequently receive comments, a fraction of these are helpful and offer advice that I incorporate into my answers.
Do I up-vote these comments and then flag them for ...
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Is it appropriate to downvote an answer that may have been good at the time it was posted, but is now incorrect?
Suppose that while browsing through old questions, I find that the top answer, while almost certainly correct at the time it was posted, is now incorrect. I add a new answer with the current, correct ...
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What are expectations/policy around spoilers?
I have, on a couple occasions noticed either (1) a spoiler box being used incorrectly - that is, it didn't actually hide all the info that was spoiler info. And (2) a spoiler box being used when the ...
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What is expected/customary procedure for crediting info from comments?
Is there a generally accepted procedure for crediting info that someone suggests in the comments of my answer. Should I write something like "@coolrpg points out..." and then the info that user ...
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Editing an answer to change a mistaken vote
So I'm new to the voting system and had a bit of a gaffe trying to zen after a bad comment found me on a bad day. Long story short, I down-voted good answers with the intent to undo the down-votes as ...
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How can I encourage a user to improve their grammar without being rude?
I've had this issue come up multiple times during my time here: a new user comes in full of enthusiasm and things to contribute but their posts are riddled with grammar/punctuation errors and the ...
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When making welcoming comments, should I include my own opinion on close reasons?
When making a welcoming comment, one usually also points out anything that might need to be fixed in the question, the most common of which being a missing system tag. Most of the time I am confident ...
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How are users supposed to suggest questions might get better answers on a different SE site?
Today someone asked a question that, at its heart, is an interpersonal behavior/advice question. Seeing this while browsing the questions list, I stopped by and made the comment (to the best of my ...
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Should I delete an answer I posted too soon before knowing the question was a duplicate? [duplicate]
I ninja-answered the question Can one still deal Non-Lethal Damage if they trigger the Automatic Kill feature? with an answer right before it got closed due to being a duplicate, because I didn't ...
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Etiquette for revisiting an old question
I asked a question a while back about quasi-liches and got a few responses and even selected a suitable answer. But now I have found a newly published answer to the question.
How should I go about ...
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I'm worried I'm not being believed, but I'm telling the truth. What can I do?
After asking this question, I received a comment which troubled me, and is the source of this question:
There was some conversation about the veracity of your story in chat during your last ...
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Question flagged as too broad, but I got an answer I liked... what now?
I asked a question about how to hide something from PCs. It got closed as too broad, which I can kinda see, but I got an answer before it was suspended that gave me exactly the information I was ...
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What if you agree with an answer, except for one part that is not really on-topic but you find very wrong?
For the context, I am speaking about KRyan's answer to How much money can I make up with class features?.
As it is I completely agree with it, except for the last sentence I find completely wrong. On ...
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Eek! A troll in the Stack! What do I do?
I've seen a strange question and it's accumulating poor responses from its owner. Stuff like this is happening to me or someone else:
left a comment asking for a clarification, and got a response ...
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What is the site's policy on cross-tag possible duplicate questions?
I'm asking because of this question: How do I depower Magic items that are op without ruining the immersion tagged: dnd-5e magic-items
With the help of Miniman, we commented a related question: What ...
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Why do people use GM versus DM?
As I've been on SE, I noticed that many questioners and answerers use 'GM' to describe the person running the game as opposed to 'DM'.
I know that DM stands for Dungeon Master and that GM stands for ...
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How many times to link a resource?
When/How many times should you link to a resource?
I've never had this issue come up before, but when answering this question I kept referencing the same items repeatedly. When that happens:
Is ...
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Would it be considered bad etiquette to self-answer a question summarizing points from other answers and comments?
So I asked this question about a week back and I've received two answers at the current time of posting.
I disagree with with David's answer but asking for clarification and further information in ...
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Are we losing the character of our members in our answers?
One thing that I've seen a lot lately is people questioning the tone rather than the content of questions and answers. Actually, I've seen it a lot period... recalling a few older debates.
One of ...
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Upvoting Old Questions and Answers?
I really enjoy reading through the related posts. However, some of them can be quite old. Is it proper etiquette to upvote those that I give those that I find deserving? Should I consider a question ...
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Is it acceptable to resurrect old threads with new answers?
I was browsing the main site and came across this veteran 1.5 year old question, and I feel that I have a useful answer to add - a house-rule interpretation that hasn't been brought up in the current ...
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What are the polite limits of editing others' posts for formatting?
Related: How should I approach editing?
RPG.se seems to lend itself to longer answers than some other sites. Because of this, formatting becomes even more important.
Before I commit to reading a ...
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What's the etiquette on broadening a question?
A few times I've seen a question where the asker specifically only wanted answers to the game he tagged (usually 4e, not to flame, just to illustrate). I've read the question and responded to myself, ...
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