Questions tagged [policy]
For questions and discussions about RPG.SE policy, or policy on the meta site itself.
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Is there a way to ask focused opinion-based questions? [duplicate]
For context I want link this as the question that inspired me to ask about the possibility for certain types of opinion-based questions.
The question I asked, while having some rules based elements, ...
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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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Is the general form of a common question a duplicate of the specific forms?
The situation is the following: there are often questions where the querant is facing a very specific instance of a more general issue. For example:
Someone wants to know when a colossal creature ...
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Is it okay to heavily correct a question/answer that contains a lot of typos/grammar errors?
Sometimes one can find a question or an answer containing a lot of typos and/or grammar errors: is it ok to proceed in correcting them (at the best of one's knowledge) or is it better to leave a ...
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So, let’s talk about rule intent and question closing
Admittedly a bit slower that we’d have preferred (our bad), this is a continuance of rule intent discussion. (See why I’m avoiding saying revisit below).
As a brief summary, questions asking for ...
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Is it OK to synthesise answers into a new answer? [duplicate]
What I have repeatedly experienced in my short time on this Q&A site is that I pose a question, and receive serveral answers, each of them contributing some perspective of value, but none fully ...
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Is it time to revisit rule intent questions?
In June '21, Someone_Evil began a discussion: We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas. As part of the summary of her overwhelmingly supported answer, doppelgreener includes this point:
If ...
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Do questions have to pose an ‘actual problem’? [duplicate]
Statements such as “not an actual problem” have been posited as criticism of questions and closure justification.
Is it true that every RPGSE question must pose an ‘actual problem’?
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Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy
We occasionally get questions which don’t specify which game system they are about, and which are about specific aspects of that game. Because the context and answers depend and vary with the system, ...
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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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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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Can we generalize our policy on linking system-specific rules, toolsets, etc. as clearly stating the system?
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this meta now refers to an outdated policy.
We have this question about reopening a question and tagging it pathfinder-2e on the ...
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Are interviews reliable sources for supporting an answer?
The current site policy is to not consider tweets from Jeremy Crawford (or other game designers) as main support for answers to D&D 5e questions, following the Official Ruling section in the Sage ...
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What is the Nature of Stack Policy Decisions?
Note: I understand the reluctance to use a word like "policy" here. But it appears to me to be a fact that, when any sort of in-the-moment dispute arises, there is an inevitable appeal to ...
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Discussion on thread "Artificer Eldritch Cannon Protector temp hit points and Wildshape"
Currently there is an edit war with regards to the [dnd-5e] tag on this question: Artificer Eldritch Cannon Protector temp hit points and Wildshape
The question is unambiguously about D&D 5e, but ...
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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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Revisit: Is "5e" a clear enough statement of game system by a question asker to determine that the question is about D&D 5e?
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this meta now refers to an outdated policy.
This is a revisit of Is '5e' a clear enough statement of game system by a ...
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What is the “Don’t Guess the System” policy?
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
When a user ...
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What are the rules and policies of RPG.SE?
Is there a list of rules I need to follow here?
What are the site policies I need to know about?
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Does the community agree with the part of the "never guess" policy regarding asking meta first? [closed]
To quote part of KRyan's most-upvoted answer about the current policy (that was added in a later edit):
[...] we could allow system tags to be edited in without the OP’s input after a Meta discussion ...
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Are answers that include designer reasons on-topic and allowed on this site?
This question was based on a thought I had in reaction to this: Is a question that ends up only having 'designer reason' answers off-topic even if designer reasons aren't specifically what ...
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What to do if seeking the answer to an existing question that's been closed because the system wasn't specified?
A long while back, when I was first starting to get confident about asking questions on this site, I had a question I wanted to ask. However, I searched, and the question I wanted to ask already ...
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Should locked questions be unprotected?
There are a number of locked questions that are protected. This causes them to stay in the protected list indefinitely, hampering cleanup. Since there is no risk that low rep users are going to ...
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Confusion regarding the topicality of and differences between "history-of-gaming" and "designer-reasons" questions
The current policy on "designer-reasons" questions states that they are off-topic and are considered to be off-topic because they often receive answers that make guesses and do not involve ...
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Improvement on Deleted Answers Help Page - deletion due to rpg.se policies
Deleted answers help page starts with the sentence:
Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed.
And goes on to give examples of non-answer answers.
Yet, deletion can ...
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Does adding the system tag to this question violate the "never guess the system" policy?
This question: Would Zorquan be a Unity domain patron?
As I said in a comment, given that the question includes "2e Forgotten Realms" (provided for background context for lore purposes) and "we're ...
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Can we get a new question close reason for this new policy? [duplicate]
Based on the most highly upvoted answer to Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy, it's pretty clear that this policy is here to stay.
One of the things I hate about how the ...
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Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy [duplicate]
Note: As of September 3rd, 2021, this policy has been removed
Following the results of Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy this policy is no longer in effect. New guidance pending.
Sometimes ...
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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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Revisiting citation expectations of good subjective answers
There have been quite a few questions on Good Subjective answers and their policy, and I would like this one to avoid discussing what moderators are or aren't doing to enforce the current policy. ...
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Is '5e' a clear enough statement of game system by a question asker?
This post is now outdated. See the revisit instead: Revisit: ‘5e’ as sufficient system statement
As a community we have a long established policy of not guessing game systems. In cases where the ...
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How to address undue criticism that targets diverse answers?
I find that my opinions are being unfairly targeted by high ranking members.
How can we keep the quality of the answers if diverse or taboo opinions are targeted?
Two examples:
How can I help our ...
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When a question limits the scope of answers, but that limit eliminates everything, how should we handle it? [duplicate]
Inspired by the recent questions about overly strict implications of “spells do only what they say they do”:
How can food created by a spell be destroyed?
How can magical vines conjured by a spell be ...
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Can I include a screenshot of a diagram to support my answer?
I recently answered a question where the best support I could find is in a diagram presented in the beginners rules. I attempted to translate the diagram to the best of my ability but it isn't as ...
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Is it acceptable to append the "dnd-5e" tag to questions that lack it but are about Adventurers League? [duplicate]
This question was missing the dnd-5e tag but is asking a question in the context of an Adventurers League game.
I know we have a policy against guessing game editions but, in this case, no guess was ...
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A Modest Proposal for answers that aren't backed up
This has happened many times, but I'm going to focus on the most recent question where answers have flooded in that aren't backed up but are highly upvoted.
If we do, in fact, want people to support ...
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When do homebrew suggestions need to be playtested by an answerer?
It is unclear to me when someone needs to provide playtesting for homebrew suggestions and when they don't.
As an example, in this answer, MattDM provides a really good answer for the first half, ...
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Are Tag Criteria Prescriptive or Descriptive?
Which of the following is true:
Tag criteria are prescriptive; one reads the criteria of a tag and checks whether they apply to the question; tag criteria change through meta discussions and/or wiki ...
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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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Are one-line "mic drop" answers merely frowned upon or actually prohibited?
Are one-line answers merely bad answers (presumably meant to be down-voted or commented upon to suggest improvement) or are they actively against the rules for posted answers (beyond salvation and ...
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How Trivial an Edit is Too Trivial to Make?
I know that trivial edits (and style wars/most style edits) are inappropriate on RPGSE. But the question arises, how trivial is trivial? For example, I recently saw this edit on an old question: one ...
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'We do not enforce style' - how to react to discrepancies between policy and reality?
I've seen it repeatedly Officially Declared that 'we' do not enforce styles, and do not do trivial changes that have zero effect on clarity. And yet in practice, over the course of my stay here, I ...
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Why doesn't this site allow opinion-based side questions?
I have asked several questions which contain side questions. For example, in a question regarding familiars using magic items, I asked
What would be the best magic item(s) to give an imp (for ...
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How to improve/maintain the quality-of-life of small fandoms in the face of a dominant big fandom on an open Stack Exchange?
Back when I joined RPGSE, I of course noticed how big the D&D demographic is here. And at first I thought, 'Hey, I can just Ignore all the AD&D tags and Watch tags of my games and everyone has ...
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Should we encourage users to wait 24 hours before accepting an answer?
There are those here who encourage users not to accept answers before waiting at least 24 hours. Most of the time it is presented as something that "we" recommend or encourage. Some even refer to it ...
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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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Is there a list of site rules which can be linked to new users?
New visitors to the site are routinely linked to the Tour, which introduces certain banned topics: Questions which are off-topic, primarily opinion-based, have too many possible answers, or would ...
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Revisiting our "never guess the game system" policy [duplicate]
We have a policy that says we never guess the game system someone's playing when we need to know it but it's not clearly stated in the question. Conditions for our site have changed since it was ...
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Who handles an apparent violation of the Stack-wide Terms of Service?
I'm not going to identify the account in question right now, but I have noticed one particular account who continually makes posts using "we", rather than "I". There are more subtle contextual clues ...
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