Questions tagged [meta]
There's no Meta Meta Role-playing Games, so this tag is for discussing Meta Role-playing Games itself.
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I struggled to find a piece of documentation on the site; should I open a question that directs people to it and answer it?
I just had the experience of looking for the "How do I ask a good question?" help page and struggling to find it. The very first thing I did to try to find it was type the page's exact title ...
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Checking in: do we need any updates to our Citation Expectations Q&A?
This meta is a check-in on: What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange?
I created this meta a few years ago so people could point to it while leaving a comment addressing an ...
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What is the time/protocol for enacting a meta decision?
When putting answer here, often you get responses, sometimes not or only after a longer time frame. In general there is a lot less traffic on meta than on the main site, and responses can be slow in ...
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Does the usage guidance for the [closed-questions] tag on this Meta need to be updated?
The usage guidance for closed-questions says:
This tag is for posts looking to raise meta discussions about specific closed questions, as well as for questions about the concept of a closed question ...
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Why is there an RPG.SE Meta question listed as an upcoming event?
On the right hand column of RPG.SE, there's a link to a meta question (Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy) with an "Upcoming events" header rather than the expected "Featured on ...
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How shall we frame our upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy?
As a community, we should discuss how to frame the upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy. We need a transparent and fair vote, so we ought to establish voting rules that prevent ...
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We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas
Let me start by trying to give a definition. We’re here talking about meta discussions which strongly guide or dictate behaviour, and in particular where there are opposing, incompatible options and – ...
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What's next for the issues raised in the community check in?
As I am writing this, it has been 45 days since the 2021 Community Check-in. Many of the answers identify observed site trends, with scores indicating community agreement with those observations.
So ...
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Should we lock community check-in posts on Meta once we open a new one?
We have community check-ins on Meta that represent a snapshot of the time they describe. These snapshots are useful when one contextualises what the metacommunity perceives as pressing incidents, ...
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What is the process for establishing and maintaining policies?
The core question I'm looking to get an answer for is "What is a policy and how does it function?". Specifically, how does something become policy, and who is responsible for maintaining or ...
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Would it be helpful to have a Question Workshop thread?
This idea is somewhat borrowed from puzzling.se's Riddle Sandbox and math.se's Draft Sandbox threads.
Would it be helpful or beneficial to have a thread on meta for posting question drafts as answers ...
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How are the meta FAQ supposed to be used?
Are they rules, recommendations, convenient places to hold discussions? How are they to be used? What expectations are there when you link someone to a meta thread? Are meta top answers a suggestion ...
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Where's the FAQ? I can't seem to find it
I've been looking for a while and I can't find the FAQ, would someone be kind enough to link it to me?
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Proposal to reboot our forum list
Our list of forums gets used in comments quite frequently, including by yours truly --- however, while I like describing it as "our curated list of forums", many of the answers there haven't been ...
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What is the appropriate way to bring community attention to unacted-on meta consensus?
Just for example, these questions:
Do we need a [disadvantage] tag?
Non-duplicate questions, with opposite correct answers, merged
(Disclaimer: one was my meta question, and the other one is about ...
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How to show the most recent community consensus in meta?
This meta: What to do when an edit guesses the system being used rather than waiting for the querent to clarify?
is an old post that has received faq tag.
However, there is an attempt to revisit the ...
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Which metas should we draw more attention to by featuring?
Meta is the part of the site where we figure out what's going on with the other, "main" part of the site. From an individual question's closure to electing a new moderator to figuring out ...
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Why is my meta rep briefly different from my normal rep?
Literally as I started making this question it changed to what it should be, but I'm still curious as to why it was the case:
I had two tabs in Chrome open, one on meta and the other on rpg....
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What is on topic for Role-playing Meta Stack Exchange
There doesn't seem to be any location to find this information, and I have a few questions that don't fit with many of the current meta questions.
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Have links on Meta been rewritten for the new HTTPS domains?
Without getting into the content if at all possible, I was browsing "Is something wrong?" Yes: Pervasive ad hominem and judgmental behaviors and noticed that links in that post cause HTTPS ...
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Feedback on healing our community [closed]
This was originally a response to How is the community doing?, but has been moved to its own question on request.
The community’s situation is improving, but acknowledgements & commitments need ...
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A Featured meta question isn't showing up as "Featured on meta"
How is the community doing? is currently featured (as of 13 hours ago), but not showing up in the Featured on meta section of the community sidebar:
It is however showing up in the hot meta posts.
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Just FYI, the RPG Meta site's link has changed (because HTTPS)
This post is likely of interest only to those who are curious about networking and security protocols, or Stack Exchange infrastructure projects.
Or those wondering if they were only merely imagining ...
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Small cleanup of the [faq-proposal] tag done
I've just cleaned up the faq-proposal meta tag. This isn't a big deal, but I'd like to leave a record of what changed and why a few very old questions just got edited. This tag had two kinds of ...
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Can and how should we advertise community games on meta?
There seems to be a bit of support for the idea of using meta to advertise about games we in the community are running or planning to run. I'd like to ask about whether and how we might do that here.
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What's the actual process around [faq-proposal]s? [duplicate]
Use real headers instead of fake headers just went from faq-proposal to faq without apparent discussion about the change, and Can I send private messages to users? became an faq-proposal. I thought ...
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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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"Is something wrong?" Yes: Pervasive ad hominem and judgmental behaviors
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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How does one propose policy?
Suppose I wanted to put forth a policy for discussion, refinement, some sort of decision process, and eventually formal adoption/rejection. Say... a policy to explicitly allow tool-recommendation ...
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Cleaning up the Mess of cleaning up the mess of wod tag metas
There are 3 meta questions about clearing up the mess of WoD Tags.
Shall we review the various World of Darkness tags' use?
Clearing up White Wolf World of Darkness tags
Clean up tagging for &...
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The role of chat at RPG Stack Exchange
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Meta is where consensus happens.
Questions and answers have to be good questions and answers without requiring "context" from chat.
Any Stack Exchange site has three realms for interaction: ...
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Where can novices ask RPG questions that fall outside the scope of this site?
As a relative noob to the site and RPGing, I just wanted to gather suggestions of where noobs with basic questions about RPG mechanics or rules (which aren't considered "expert" but are valid ...
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