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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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Insert Coin, Feed Beast: mine.stackgaming.com
By popular request, we have reset the server, and now use the Ultimate mod pack.
This is a formal notification of our commmunity FTB (Ultimate) Minecraft server. It is a whitelisted server, so if ...
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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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Disable the “question with the same title” filter on Arqade
When trying to ask What does Luck do in Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2? I found there was already a question titled "What does luck do?" No biggie, it was a completely different game (tag based ...
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Can the review queues respect ignored tags?
While still playing through Bioshock Infinite, I have the tag ignored to avoid any spoilers. While going through the review queue, I came upon a question asking, Why did X happen during the ending? ...
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Mass Effect 3 Prizes
Unless we've contacted you about an ordering or shipping problem, the orders have all been placed and you should be receiving your prizes soon. The only exception is for the Messenger Bag - Razer is ...
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Are people flagging as NAA or VLQ when they really should be flagging as spam or offensive?
I've seen a troubling trend of bad answers remaining on the site far longer than they should. And by bad, I mean really bad. Stuff that not only isn't an answer, but also contains swear words, ...
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Can I be notified if a question I've answered before offers a bounty?
This is possibly in the realm of MSO, but since it's particularly applicable to this site I'm asking here.
We get a lot of answers that go out of date, particularly in oft-updated games such as ...
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Gaming promotional posters
As addressed in this question I have made some posters for anyone to print out and advertise the site. Please feel free to use them as you please.
Please don't post suggestions here, ask me ...
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League of Legends Contest!
Edit: This round is now over. The next round will begin tomorrow, so check out this post for the details and new prizes!
Winners:
The most viewed question (viewed 276 times) was What does SS stand
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We have a YouTube channel
You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/GamingSE
At the moment it's a bit sparse, but that will be changing soon. If you have any videos you would like to put on it, Speak to us in the ...
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Make the rep display bold again
With the site redesign, I noticed that on the main site (but not on meta) rep now does not show as bold. Can someone please fix this?
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Can we pay more attention when voting to close questions?
Recently we've had a few questions closed that perhaps shouldn't have been, or should have been closed with a different reason. I don't want to dig up the obvious candidate here, that has it's own ...
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Stack Gaming at PAX (the Penny Arcade Expo)
PAX East is coming up soon (April 6th-8th, Boston, MA), and while getting passes is difficult for the average plebian, there's still a little section...
Exhibitors
Interested in exhibiting at ...
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Can dupe suggestions pay attention to question tags?
When creating a new question we all get the suggestions of similar or potentially dupes.
With this site in particular, going solely on question title can lead to false positives since we can have the ...
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SEO for AC: Revelations
Should the AC: Revelations tag be ac-revelations instead of the current assassins-creed-revel? Google doesn't (predictably) pick up on "revel" = "revelations", but easily seems to equate "ac" with ...
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Add new tags to the review page
David has kindly granted the request to Stop removing tags that are only used once in the last 6 months
In his answer he mentioned that we should
Get familiar with ...
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Next Leaguecraft ggClassic presented by Arqade - play, ask, answer and win prizes!
This contest has officially ended. Congratulations to our winners! They are as follows (drumroll...):
The 5 winners of the $25 League of Legends game cards are:
ponsfonze
monocledsardine
Fluttershy
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Vote to Close dialog needs some cleanup for the new domain
There's a few minor quibbles here. First off, and most obviously, the migration path is wrong. It should (presumably) have the monochrome version of the site logo, and shouldn't be meta.gaming.
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New York Comic Con 2011 - Gaming.SE involvement
New York Comic Con is approaching soon (October 13-16) and I would like for this site to have a presence of some sort. Here's what I tentatively propose:
Up to 20 users from Gaming.SE can attend ...
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3-Day Passes available for New York Comic Con 2012, October 12-14
UPDATE: All 3-day passes have been claimed. Thank you to everyone who claimed a pass. See you at the con!
New York Comic Con is soon approaching (October 12-14). For any users interested in ...
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Mists of Pandaria Streaming
Just wanted to let you all know that we're sponsoring Midwinter Guild as they participate in 10-man and 25-man beta raiding for Mists of Pandaria.
They'll be raiding at 1:30pm and 7:00pm EST today at ...
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FAQ/Reputation info images are low quality
Various images from the FAQ and privilege info pages are either low quality, outdated, or simply incorrect. For example, this image is of especially low quality:
Sure, it's not a huge problem, but ...
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Stack Gaming sponsoring gaming personalities live-streaming new games
Food for promotional thought:
Yesterday several prominent E-sports people/gaming personalities live-streamed Kingdoms of Amalur which as far as I can tell was some sponsored thing by the ...
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Create tag without privileges
Like the ability to submit edits for approval without privilege shouldn't there be an ability to do the same with Tags? Especially for this site with new games (and therefore tags) coming out monthly ...
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Tag synonym - [heart-gold] / [soul-silver] -> [pokemon-hgss]
Earlier discussion: Pokemon tag problems (Gotta Tag 'Em All)
(This post is to ask for a higher-rep user to take an action on something from that discussion.)
I already retagged all of the ...
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Links to mobile.twitter URL's don't Onebox in chat
URL links to tweets embed nicely in a nice chat onebox that provides the text of the tweet. It's awesome. But when the URL is for twitters mobile site, such as ...
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Cross site ads should show tags
Here's a cross site question ad I just saw on UX:
What game is this question is about? (Okay no fair if you've played Diablo 3). Arqade is probably one of the sites that benefits the most from ...
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Dark flair looks bad
Our new branding has fixed previous problems with flair, but has introduced a new one: The logo just looks bad on the dark flair, you can't make it out at all.
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Interested in a short story contest taking place in games' story lines?
Some of the games we love on the site have such rich stories and well-developed worlds. Many of us spend good times (and sometimes not as good :) traveling, hacking, defeating and dying in these ...
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Beta badge description says “Stack Overflow”
The badges page (on both gaming and meta.gaming) says "Stack Overflow" where it should probably say... well, the name of the site. Whatever that name ends up being.
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Duplicate questions, both without an answer cannot be flagged
I am flagging a question that is a duplicate of another. I get an error. "This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer".
Duplicate: How do I filter out regions that are full?
of ...
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Cannot search Arqade mobile site from Nintendo 3DS
I was playing a game on my 3DS and wanted to get an answer about it, so I figured I'd use the 3DS's web browser to access Arqade. Overall the mobile site works quite well on the 3DS (though it is not ...
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Protected box overlaps with “Not the question you're looking for”
If you zoom in you can see that the top of the ? and other tall characters overlap into the protection notice box.
Example here.
Fairly sure this is gaming specific as haven't noticed it on other ...
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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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The form for flagging an answer obscures the answer being flagged
I've been noticing something about flagging answers that I forgot to put into a question until today ... when you flag an answer, the modal form that appears is covering the answer that was flagged.
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Gaming offline page says that “stackoverflow is offline”
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ just went offline, but the offline page is a copy of stackoverflow's.
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Make 'Related' links prioritize questions matching *all* tags
Although SE in general considers tags to be equal, we have atleast 2 tags that I know of - story and achievements - that are only valid when paired with another tag for a particular game or series.
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New Site Design Permanent?
Maybe I missed a chat discussion but...
Is the new site design (minus the "Mass Effect 3" promotional banner) a permanent change?
Because it looks fantastic.
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Networking tags
We've got kind of a set of network-related tags going, each with low question counts:
networking - Some of these are port forwarding or connection issues, but a fair chunk appear to be about "lag" or ...
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Question data looks messy
Perhaps as a result of the blog post by usabilitypost announcing the design of ux.stackexchange.com, this sidebar metadata presentation change reached Gaming as well:
→ →
However, the end ...
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Are custom close-reasons possible?
Specifically, can we get one for Game-Rec?
Closing Game-Rec as 'off topic' works on a conceptual level, but in practice, the people most likely to have such questions closed, are the ones least ...
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Gaming.SE Minecraft skin
To celebrate Fosco's moment of madness that lead to me really owning Minecraft, I've quickly made a Gaming/Minecraft skin for you to use.
Download the skin.
The skin is available also in ...
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Tooltip for flagging messages is wrong
Not that I was actually going to flag it...but:
Note: My mouse was over "flag as spam/offensive". I don't think that's the same as "click to star".
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Why was my question about “Kirby mass attack hidden switches” closed as a Duplicate?
I asked earlier where the hidden switches of the Dedede resort of Kirby Mass Attack were. It has a different message that says, "Keep an eye out for hidden switches on some stages". It is not the ...
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Click stats for ads are wrong
The stats page for community ads has a bug in the way Clicks per day is calculated.
Clicks per day is using the number of days since the ad was first posted to meta, not from when the ad 'went live', ...
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How do the review queues work?
I've been in the Review page recently. I was just wondering how the review queues for the different categories work.
If I reviewed a 'first post', ' late answer' or a 'low quality' post, will that ...
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Tags are underlined
tags like this-one and this-other-one are underlined:
Note: this doesn't happen in the preview!
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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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Limit questions on the front page / above the fold per-tag
Right now, the front page looks like a LoL site, not a gaming site. I get that this is because the tournament is going on, and that's going to drive a lot of traffic and be good and so on - but I have ...
