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Subjective but useful question, What should we do about?
I was reading this question and is a really good one. But in my opinion it's very subjective. there is no definitive answer.
For example:
@Raven says "Go BS first"
@bwarner says "Don't go for BS ...
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1answer
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Diablo 3 Gems - Quick To Answer
Ah, this seems to explain what I have been seeing with people posting a very quick one sentence answer and then expanding that answer through edits.. Might this particular gem be a bit of a way to ...
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1answer
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Is my reputation stuck?
E.g. 6 minutes ago, I received another upvote from this answer, however my rating is still that of several hours ago. I already noticed this problem a couple of hours ago, but I hoped it would just go ...
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0answers
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Minor feedback for the font style on diablo3act.com
Diablo3Act.com ist using the Diablo Font ExocetLight. The problem with this font is actual the letter "T". In lower case the "T" looks like a plus sign. In uppercase it's okay. The next problem might ...
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1answer
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See who downvoted your answer
I answered a question regarding pistons in minecraft and how to control them individually. What I didn't see was that he later commented that they were vertical, however, he never edited the question.
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0answers
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Can we advertise Game On! etc. in the Community Bulletin?
This would be an awesome place to advertise forthcoming games to users of the site besides those that hang out in chat! Also worthy of inclusion: blog posts, chat event etc. We can has?
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0answers
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Custom user-styles, make the nav-bar buttons have a hover-state
I was bored and a little disappointed in the Diablo 3 theme's navigation bar at the top not having any sort of hover-state, so I created two different custom user-styles that you can plug into a ...
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1answer
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The Lord of Destruction is dead
From the contest website (emphasis added):
[...] a series of Acts and Gems you can earn to aid you as you set out to battle the Lord of Destruction. [...]
As far as we know from Diablo II, the ...
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0answers
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Please fix the box shadow on the badge hover-state!
Very annoying, but when you hover over a badge on Gaming.SE, the hover state adds an extra pixel on the bottom which creates a white line between the edge of the badge box and the box shadow below it.
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1answer
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Diablo III Acts and User Page disagree with each other on Acts 2-4
The Diablo III Acts page lists 3 requirements for the latter 3 acts: 1+ voted questions, 5+ voted questions, and 10+ voted questions.
Our individual user pages, however, list 1+, 5+, and 8+.
I think ...
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2answers
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Can we burn the maps tag?
Moving forward with this
I don't see any value in the maps tag. Permission to destroy it?
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0answers
515 views
Diablo 3 Acts and Gems - Battle the armies of Hell with us and earn awesome prizes
After nearly 4 years of anticipation, Blizzard has finally released the third installment in the Diablo franchise. The heroes who saved the world in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, have since gone ...
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Are you playing Diablo 3? Why don't you play with us?
Blah blah blah enormously hyped, blah blah persistant multiplayer yadda yadda battletag and built in chat client, I'm not going to bother boring you with things you already know.
Instead, I'm just ...
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1answer
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Links and tooltips in Diablo III questions
Diablo III is about to come out, and I anticipate a lot of questions about it. These questions (and their answers) are likely to refer to skills and items from the game, so they are likely to link to ...
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1answer
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Is there a reason so many MW3 questions have the call-of-duty tag?
It seems half the questions specific to MW3 are tagged with both the modern-warfare-3 tag and the call-of-duty series tag. Is there any reason we should not go to town on them?
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1answer
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Bad question about gaming?
I see all kind of people(including some of my friends) that simply don't know when to stop playing(for instance, wake up, play wow, eat ,play wow ,eat , play wow , sleep). Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
I ...
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2answers
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Platform Tags are Useless
So, for nearly two years now, we've had a fairly straightforward 'rule' for when to use Platform Tags (i.e. ps3, pc etc.):
I think it should only be added when:
It's a general question ...
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0answers
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Where do our grammar rules come from? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
American English spelling vs British English spelling?
Until now I haven't thought about this, as it seemed self-explanatory. But this question has raised the idea and ...
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2answers
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Sorting out the tagging mess
A lot of users, myself included, believe the current tagging situation is a bit messy. This has been discussed before:
A personal appeal to Jeff Atwood: Recent Changes to Gaming
Let's talk about ...
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2answers
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Could we have the new <kbd> tag?
Recently, <kbd> tags on the trilogy sites and I think Apple as well were updated to look less ugly.
vs.
I am in favor of less ugly. Can we have it?
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1answer
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What to do when someone has 0% accept rate?
Should I just NOT ANSWER people with 0% accept rate (and of course tell them why)? Or should I just give them a link to the FAQ and tell them that accepting gives not only the person who answers them ...
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1answer
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Do we want / need a tag for player companions?
Multiple games have a concept of a non-player-character escorting the player's character and helping him or her in some way, e.g. the companions in Skyrim or the followers in Diablo III.
Right now we ...
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1answer
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Why are questions asking for games that focus on specific mechanics against the rules?
I made a mistake. I asked This Question, which is clearly against the faqs listed, and for that I'm sorry (I have already flagged it for deletion). But I don't understand why this site doesn't have ...
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1answer
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Can a question have “too many tags”?
This suggested edit, which entails adding one tag to a question with three tags on it, was rejected for the following reason:
this question has too many tags already.
The question was ...
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4answers
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Should questions on how to unlock DLC without paying be allowed?
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/65381/risen-2-unlock-dlc-via-console (10k link)
Should we allow content like this?
It is basically just a cheat like it happened to be there in the good old ...
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1answer
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Should we support tech support questions for games on alternative (unsupported) operating systems?
There are a lot of Linux and (specifically Ubuntu) questions mostly asked about games that were never meant to be supported on Linux. Most of these are done using Wine. Naturally a lot of issues ...
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2answers
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Frag the “lag” tag
The lag tag (on 30 questions) seems awful. In common parlance "lag" is a catch-all term for poor performance; attributable to myriad things. Many of the questions it's on have a network bent, but ...
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1answer
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What the heck…?
I'm sory if title is little bit off and some might find it even rude, but that was my first reaction when I read this question and answers.
As someone who is fairly familiar with SE network, but in ...
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5answers
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Is it OK to down-vote overly popular answers?
It's very common to see a question that has a fair to decent answer with a very large numer of upvotes, followed by a better answer with half the upvotes.
Usually, it's because the higher ranked ...
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0answers
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Game Giveaway Round 3 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier! [closed]
The deadline for applying to this game grant has now passed.
The winners for this round are:
Shinrai
Fluttershy
tiddy
Mana
James
EBongo
Mr. November
Ullallulloo
Axiom
Ivo Flipse
Stephen
Arremer
...
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0answers
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Page renders with me having upvoted and downvoted simultaneously
I think it's easiest to just explain this with a picture and steps to reproduce:
Downvote a post. Leave that tab open.
Wait for the post to get edited.
Open a new tab and upvote that post.
Wait ...
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1answer
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Is this question off topic? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I ask if a specific game will run on a specific computer system?
If I were to list my system specs and ask if I could run Diablo III would that be bad?
I want to be ...
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Diablo 3 is coming - train with us!
Diablo III is here! Therefore the training period has ended, and it's time to do battle for real. Winners for this contest have been selected. Congratulations to:
fredley for asking What is ...
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1answer
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Should electronic games be included the site's purview?
Generalizing the pinball discussion, should the domain of the side include all electronic games? I'm not sure how far this would extend beyond pinball and other arcade games.
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1answer
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Is the Google “zerg rush” easter egg on topic?
Is it possible to beat Google's zerg rush easter egg game?
I downvoted and voted to close this question. I don't think it belongs on the site. Others may disagree.
Should questions about this ...
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1answer
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call-of-duty vs. call-of-duty-series
Is there a reason why the Call of Duty series tag is call-of-duty instead of call-of-duty-series?
It appears that previous discussion would prefer the latter. (It also appears that many of the ...
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1answer
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Chat room for suggesting a new name for Gaming.SE
A couple months ago, David Fullerton posted a proposed new name for gaming.stackexchange.com: Game Council (see this post for details). Some members of the community supported the name, others were ...
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1answer
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Why can't I chat?
So I can't seem to be able to type or say anything in any of the chat channels. When I type in something and submit it, nothing happens (what I type in the box does clear out though). Considering I ...
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1answer
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Can I get a dump of my deleted question?
I had been searching for an old arcade game I used to play for years (the only one I played a lot, I was not a player). I thought gaming.stackexchange could help me, redacted a very detailed question ...
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How to change your vote to neutral?
Suppose that hypothetically you downvoted a question because it was wrong or it was off-target or maybe because the asker wrote it in bad barely comprehensible English without seeming to put any ...
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2answers
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How should we tag Mount And Blade: Napoleonic Wars?
The new DLC for Mount and Blade Warband, Napoleonic Wars, is out. But the full name,
mount-and-blade-warband-napoleonic-wars is obviously too long for the character limit, as is just ...
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1answer
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How do I receive reputation on StackExchange? [closed]
How do I receive reputation on StackExchange?
I have seen people with more than 75k reputation, and it really astounds me!
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1answer
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Is rep recalculation not instant for deletions?
I deleted my old post containing an outdated answer (10k+ only) since there's a newer and better answer, but I haven't lost my rep from it yet (110). When will that rep fix occur?
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1answer
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Could we have a distinct style for answer links?
Could we get a unique styling for answer hyperlinks? Currently, question and answer links look exactly the same — the color, anyway.
This is more a functional request than an aesthetic one, ...
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1answer
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Why are my 'Invalid Flag' flags not considered 'helpful?'
So, occasionally, when I look through /tools, I see a perfectly useful answer that has been flagged as Not An Answer, or which has a Very Low Quality Score. Typically, I will make use of the special ...
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3answers
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When should a highly-downvoted answer be flagged as “very low quality”?
If an answer is heavily downvoted by the community for inaccurate content, obsolescence, or some other indicator of low quality, is there a threshold it should meet before being flagged for review? Or ...
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What makes a question active?
Answering a question marks it as active, but are there any other actions that can do that (i.e. voting, commenting, flagging, reporting, etc)?
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3answers
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Should questions about different XP bonus types on Diablo 3 all be lumped together?
A few months ago, I asked the question How does the Massacre bonus work?. I intended for it to be a fairly comprehensive question about the Massacre bonus mechanics, but I didn't lump other xp bonus ...
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1answer
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Why do I have more rep in meta than I do on Gaming?
As you can see, my rep on the meta is 125, But on Gaming, is 75 because I placed a bounty on a question. Why is my rep higher on the meta than it is on the actual site?
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1answer
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APM tag removed. What is the rationale?
It appears the "APM" tag has recently been removed from the system. (APM means Actions Per Minute.) A quick search for "APM" gives 44 search results. APM is relevant to at least the RTS (real time ...
