Questions tagged [support]
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Why is there a malus on downvoting?
If I upvote someone, it doesn't cost me anything, but if I downvote it costs rep and provides a disincentive to do so.
Downvoting is treated also as a personal attack, and there is a general attitude ...
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How can I request the reason for my comment being deleted?
The other day I made a comment on this answer explaining what I thought were problems with the the answer. A lengthy discussion followed and, for the most part, we discussed how my comment wasn't ...
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Please destroy the [mechanicaldream] -> [mechanical-dream] tag synonym
We have a a tag synonym pointing mechanicaldream to mechanical-dream, and it's preventing me from actually recreating the mechanical-dream tag and reapplying it to one of our past questions that lost ...
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Tag fix request: [mastersummoner] to [master-summoner]
This question has the tag mastersummoner, which should be master-summoner per the guidelines that spaces should appears as dashes in tag names.
Seems stupid to ask a mod for something so simple, but ...
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User was removed?
I'm not sure if I did something wrong and I'm doing something even wronger posting this, but there is only one way to know.
I went to my profile a few minutes ago and I found that there was a "User ...
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Why did the Community user delete one meta post by a deleted user, but not another?
The user lately known as xxx got their account-deletion request fulfilled earlier today. Shortly after, it appears that the meta post (10k users) at the centre of that event was deleted, while this ...
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Can we rename [dnd-next] to [dnd-next-playtest] before it's released?
The 5th release of D&D is due for release in "Summer 2014", which means sometime soon. As far as I'm aware, it does not have a definite name yet: it might be D&D 5th Edition, or retain its ...
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How can I search for a term on its own?
How can I use the search feature to find, for example, all posts with the word 'mage' without also including those that have the word 'image'?
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Contacting a user
I wanted to make a comment on a question, but I don't have enough rep to make a comment but what I want to say is not an answer to the question. So how can I go about getting my comment to the person ...
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Synonymise [software] -> [tools]
Both software (34 questions) and tools (80 questions) generally cover software and online service recommendations, and their summaries seem to describe mostly the same thing. Software apparently ...
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Is there a duo tag or something like that
Is there a way to search for duo campaigns- GM and player? Solo is pretty limited and seem to be no GM campaigns. Are there many duo threads?
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Does contributing to Close/Reopen votes outside of the review queue contribute to your total?
At 250 and 1000 reviews in a category, you get a badge. But if you either vote to close or reopen outside of the queue, does it still count towards this total? And if not (as I suspect at the moment), ...
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Is sr4-matrix too specific?
I know that the Matrix differs from edition to edition of Shadowrun. It still feels quite redundant having a question tagged "shadowrun-sr4 sr4-matrix". Shouldn't all the matrix tags be merged? The ...
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Can we merge [settings] and [campaign-settings]?
I can't imagine we need both settings and campaign-settings. I've set up a synonym request, but if it can be magically made to happen through a meta post, why not?
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Retag [sr4.matrix] to [sr4-matrix]
Can we make sr4.matrix a synonym of sr4-matrix, creating the latter in the process? (Or just retag all the sr4.matrix questions)
The former doesn't follow our tag convention. There is no reason it ...
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Format errors in Stack Exchange syntax?
I first noticed in a chat message I sent yesterday but now it's more irritatingly present in a comment: something's up with formatting on messages? There's also a question I read today (perhaps ...
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Off-Topic Flagging options vary with the questions
For some questions, when I try to flag for closing due to off-topicness, I get three options, one of them with one sub-option:
Questions about video games are off-topic here, but can be asked on ...
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How do 'Get X votes/views' badges work?
If you get 100 upvotes on an question or answer, that'll get you a Great Question/Answer badge. Likewise, there's the Famous Question badge for question views. But what happens if you already have a ...
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How do I quote RPG.SE material outside the site?
How do I quote Questions and/or Answers outside the site that I've written myself for the site?
Secondarily, how exactly do I quote - again, outside the site - Q&A by others? And what's the ...
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Our Tour page is wrong. Help us fix it!
I don't know how many Meta regulars have looked at our Tour (aka About) lately or ever, but this question and the confusion prompting it made me go looking for why it might have been asked.
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Synonimise [ironkingdoms] to [iron-kingdoms]
This is pretty small, but a recent question created the ironkingdoms tag. Normally we put a hyphen for the space in a tag's name, so it should be iron-kingdoms.
I would make this change myself but I ...
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Meta questions not editable?
The Edit link for Meta questions is grayed out and not clickable. Is this related to a Reputation level? For reference, I only wanted to add a missing tag.
EDIT: Examples of questions with that issue:...
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Save our system tags!
According to this meta suggestion, single-use tags will no longer expire if they have a tag wiki.
We have a historic problem whereby users will ask about a game system (and a tag will be created for ...
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Mouseover text for community promotion ad says 2012
The advert for Community promotion ad says 2012 in its mouseover text, but the graphic links you to a 2013 site.
Blah blah attention to detail yada yada?
Obligatory:
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What do we do with answers made obsolete by a question change?
There's a current case of an infrequent problem: Why is Donjon offline?
Dakeyras's answer was a response to a question that was once there. It was made in good faith, and is a helpful answer.
The ...
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Is it acceptable to ask in search of a specific RPG system?
In light of the removal of the "too localized" close reason, I still feel like I should ask this here.
I'm in search of a specific RPG system whose name I seem to have forgotten, but some details of ...
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How come my name doesn't show up in the reputation leagues?
When I look at the reputation league for the RPG site on stack-exchange, I can't seem to find my username. How come it's not listed?
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How do I cancel a -1 vote without give a +1 vote?
I want to remove a down vote to make it a non-vote but I don't seam to be able to without upvoting? Is it possible?
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How does all the various Stack Exchange functionality work?
The FAQ
If you want to know how asking/answering, tagging, voting, bounties, or whatever works, all the answers are linked from the Meta Stack Exchange master FAQ question: FAQ for Stack Exchange ...
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Time to burninate the [mechanics] tag
The original discussion of the mechanics tag had many votes against it and no votes for it. Unless there are new arguments to keep it, we should burninate the tag now. We have 161 questions tagged ...
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Follow up to posted questions
Is there a mechanism for a poster to follow-up their question with the results of actions taken based on what was learned here? I'm thinking specifically of GM Techniques questions, but I suspect ...
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Do you lose reputation when a post is deleted?
I'm just wondering if you lose reputation when a post that you contribute to is deleted.
Example: If you were to edit a question and that question gets deleted would you lose the 2 rep that you ...
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A question about the system recommendation tag
I recently posted a question What are the major differences between AD&D 1st Edition & AD&D 2nd Edition and I was wondering if this question meets the requirements for the system-...
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Account Merge Request
I would like to merge the following two accounts:
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/411/mike-riverso
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/4445/mike-riverso
I've tried to change the e-mail addresses ...
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How are comments removed when they are no longer relevant?
I see that a comment can be flagged but I take that as a function for comments that are offensive in some way. In cases where a comment is not relevant because the question/answer has morphed in to ...
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Retaining lonely system tags
Apparently there is a dev(?)-accessible switch on a per-site basis that disables the script that cleans out tags that have only been used once in 6 months. Arqade recently turned this off because they ...
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Is there a limit on how many questions can be asked in a given time frame?
I'm new to the site, and part of a group that is relatively new to Pathfinder. I've been asking a lot of questions (I think, anyway) and I can't help but wonder if I'm breaking a rule. I have more ...
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How does "review" work?
I'm new to SE sites, and today I noticed a "review" link on the top menu/banner for RPG.SE (but not on other SE sites).
I looked into the about and faq pages for both the main site and the meta site; ...
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Is there an RPG.SE button / graphic / banner?
I have a website (well, a few) and I would like to link to RPG.SE. Rather than use a text link, I'd like to use an image as they get better click-throughs. Is there an image I can use to link the to ...
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Editing a question to include linebreaks not possible due to "6 non-space characters minimum"
So this question needs editing; the author didn't realise (I assume) that linebreaks need to be inserted by using a 'double-space'.
But editing the question to simply add the linebreaks and make the ...
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Why don't I have Strunk and White?
I noticed on the election page that I don't have Strunk and White, but I would think I should have it. My user activity page shows that I've done 162 revisions, while the badge only requires 80 edits....
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What does "Serial Upvoting Reversed" signify?
Yesterday (and again today) it appears that someone was going through FATE questions for the first time, upvoting the ones that they thought were good, I suppose. But at the beginning of today, there ...
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Account merge request for a friend
I just convinced my co-author Samuel Russell to proper-register on this site. Unfortunately, his cookie-auth has expired or is on a formatted computer.
Can we merge:
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/...
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Were Accounts Purged?
I participated early on in the beta, but found that when I logged in after the official launch I didn't have any reputation or history. Are/were accounts inactive for a period of time purged?
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What are the criteria for graduation from beta?
In reading about the recent beta design changes, I saw a mention of if/when we get graduate out of beta. I did a quick bit of noodling around and found nothing on graduation from beta.
So, what are ...
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Why is there a "mechas" tag when "mecha" is the proper plural?
Why is there a mechas tag when mecha is the proper plural?
Perhaps I'm infected with incurable pedantry, but it's as glaring as wandering around and seeing references to "sheeps" and "goatses," or ...
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I just got fifteen badges, but I'm not bragging
I just got fifteen badges, about fifteen minutes ago, split between Announcer, Booster, and one Publicist. While I do pass links around ... it seems a little strange that I would get so many at one ...
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Retagging untagged questions
Could we retag our untagged questions on main, please?
The reasons they have become untagged are here, in short, there is a periodic process that will remove any tag that only has one instance and ...
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Awarding bounty after it expires
I placed a bounty on someone else's question, because I was interested in the answer, and it didn't seem to be getting attention. It expired unawarded, because no one answered the question. Today, ...
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How does consecutive days work
I've visited the site every day for the past couple of months, every morning like clockwork. But today when I visited, my consecutive day count had been reset. How does the consecutive day counter ...
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