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Is a dark mode for this site realistically possible and desirable, and can we in any way support its introduction?
Yes, I want dark mode on RPG.SE
I don't really have anything else interesting to say, nor do I have any knowledge about what it takes to implement it. I'm leaving this answer to simply measure support ...
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Can our tag-prompt nudge toward including system?
Something like this tag placeholder might work well:
tag which game you're playing, if any (such as: dnd-5e, world-of-darkness), max 5 tags
This requests the single most important thing to know: ...
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How about we make Stack Exchange into an RPG game?
We appreciate your enthusiasm for the site! However, major chunks of this proposal are infeasible for either one or both of these reasons:
The proposed change is not technically feasible as it would ...
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Can we make the dice bot more accessible?
Yes, let's do this. Make the d6 use numbers instead of pips.
Theory background. Using text to represent graphics isn't really accessible, and tends to be done primarily because it “works” for people ...
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Can we make the dice bot more accessible?
(Foreword so I can actually sound trustworthy as I write about this: I've been an accessibility developer for the past few years doing things exactly like this.)
We don't actually have to change the ...
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MathJax (LaTeX equations) for RPG.SE and Statistics Posts
I support this. MathJax would extensively help a lot of our posts.
Server-side performance isn't an issue because we're a small SE, like others that already have MathJax enabled.
Client-side ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
I like the dice badges, and I appreciate their minimalistic design: they're dice if you look (the RPG.SE banner d20 is right there for the comparison) but they don't call attention to themselves. I ...
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Removing downvotes?
Mods can’t and didn’t cancel any votes here
No worries, mods are unable to affect votes. That’s not a feature or power we have. Votes are sacrosanct at RPG.se and people can vote however their ...
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Why isn't there a tag for Fighting Fantasy?
We don't have a tag for them because they're off topic.
From the FAQ What kind of questions can I ask here?:
We do not include[…]
Choose Your Own Adventure–type books, even if they have ...
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Why are Questions marked as ON HOLD allowed to have an answer chosen?
They have no bearing on each other, so there's no reason one should affect the other. Just like we can vote regardless of close status, and close regardless of votes, accepted answers and close status ...
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Should/can we change the Duplicate notification?
This is a solid idea, but it's not something RPG.SE can implement: the default close reasons are shared by all Stack Exchanges. Each site gets a few custom slots for its own close reasons, but we can'...
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I've noticed that new users tend to accept questions within only a few hours; should we update the tour?
We can't actually edit that part of the tour just for this site, so this is a Stack Exchange dev thing.
But, also, no. The tour shouldn't be updated to say that. This isn't necessarily a “generally ...
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Can/should we include the system tag requirement in our tour?
As you found in comments, there's only three places we can edit in the tour: the blurb at the start, the sample question, and the on-topic/off-topic lists. This doesn't fit into any of those.
I'll ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
Make the Badge icons we already have even better.
I've taken the liberty of creating a few mockups of possible badge designs that keep to the dice format while maintaining its linework at lower ...
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Could we have a separate close reason for missing system tag?
There are two downsides, one technical and one communicative.
The technical issue is that we've used up our allotted number of custom close reasons: we get three, and we currently have board/card ...
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Blacklist bare [#-edition] tags
Went with ^\d+(st|nd|rd|th)?-?(e|ed|edition)$ just to discourage obvious work-arounds:
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Is a dark mode for this site realistically possible and desirable, and can we in any way support its introduction?
Disclaimer since there seems to have been some confusion: yes, the proof of concept is fairly ugly. That doesn't matter, it's just a proof of concept - it doesn't have to look nice, just prove that ...
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Downvoting first questions - can we be more welcoming?
I wonder - would it be effective to "shield" new members from reputation hits based on downvotes of their first question? Give them a little extra grace to work out what we're about here before ...
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Downvoting first questions - can we be more welcoming?
"We" apparently can't, but individuals can.
On a given occasion, any individual who provides close votes, down votes, or comments on a new user's question can choose to engage in a warm and ...
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Can the system tag policy be stated to askers in advance?
Yes, I think our interface should advise users to include a system tag.
They don't always need one—many social questions don't need a system tag—but we should have something hinting they should ...
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Why there is no notification for getting a downvote?
This feature has been requested before on the network meta: Display lost/negative reputation in topbar achievements. Despite the obvious support from the community (given the score), it was declined ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
While they are dice, if we're going to change them, we might pick different types of dice for the different badges. A triangle (four sided die), a square (six sided die) and an octagon (12 sided die) ...
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MathJax (LaTeX equations) for RPG.SE and Statistics Posts
This is a community-wiki post that everyone can edit.
Its purpose is to compile a list of RPG.se answers that would significantly benefit from LaTeX markup, as part of the use-case argument for ...
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Voting down has to be revised
Some of these ideas have already come up in the same or similar forms in Stack Exchange's history. Many have gained no traction or been firmly rejected; there's a reason they aren't part of our system ...
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Can we have smallcaps?
Small caps won't be implemented at SE any time soon because they can't be represented in the flavour of Markdown used by SE currently, and all feature requests that require extending the Markdown ...
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Should/can we change the Duplicate notification?
That notice is tuned to be as accessible as possible to all possible question askers and readers. New askers, and the overwhelming majority of readers, don’t know or care about the nuances of our ...
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Is it possible to create a tag referral?
Tag Synonyms
How do I propose or vote on tag synonyms?
Users with this privilege and a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. ...
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Can the system tag policy be stated to askers in advance?
You don't need to tag a question to definitively identify the game.
And I hope nobody's playing tag police when someone adds a tag to a question where the original querent specified the system in the ...
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Could a "young player" tag be relevant?
We already have this, I think! We currently have kids and the much less used teenagers, both covering real life social situations involving youngsters and slightly-less-youngsters. We can use the ...
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