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Users with less than 150 rep getting the Constituent badge? Voting?
Uh... how? Shouldn't people with less than 150 rep be unable to vote? But they appear on the Constituent list.
Waiting to hear whether these are votes - or if they're only getting the badge without ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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What is the suggested action for users that post comments as answers?
Most of these users are looking at our site to post a comment - which is harmless, but they usually only have one reputation. So, instead of doing this they instead end up in the review queue with a ...
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Deleted comments in 2013 moderator election
I am concerned about the deletion of at least several comments that have been made on the 2013 Moderator Election nominations page. What is going on here?
I had posted a fairly innocuous comment on ...
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How can the moderators and community managers ensure a fair election?
With the amount of sock puppet activity on the site, and the apparent inability for the community managers and moderators to control it (though I'm sure they're trying hard!), I don't see how the ...
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Off Topic variations
As some of you may know from MSO, there will be changes coming to how we close questions. Among them will be the removal of "too localized" (see below for how that will work) and the addition of ...
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Migration path to Blender.SE
What needs to be done to set up a migration path to the Blender Stack Exchange?
The site is still in public beta, but seems to be growing quite well day by day. Does the site need to be out of beta ...
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Why can't we embed a video in a question or answer?
Or maybe we can and I just don't know how to do it? Sometimes it's easier to display a video of gameplay and since I understand you don't want code, why not just remove the possibility of putting code ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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getting-started for continuous noob onslaught
It seems almost daily there's a new question about getting started something or other.
There were a bunch of these "getting started" questions in untagged which looked really crufty to me.
I created ...
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Request for new shortcuts to the new help pages
So, we now have help instead of the FAQ. Not really a fan of the new layout, in my opinion it's harder to find info. Regardless, it would be nice to have some proper shortcuts to the specific pages of ...
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I am new to X, … <actual problem with X>, … please help, thank you. Edit, flag or what?
I've seen handful of questions beginning with "I am new to X" which is sometimes followed with an actual problem with typos and lack of formatting, then a plea for help and a "thank you". While ...
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Abused by High-Rep members
A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, ...
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Policy on trolling
How to implement artificial intelligence and gravity for enemies in a platformer?
We've got someone using a famous meme username posting rather clear "meant to cause someone a headache" questions and ...
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Missing whitespace for title in tag wikis
The image explains it all - feels like it needs some padding / margin from top.
The only concern I have, is, whether this whitespace is lost due to the information box about priviledges below.
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How does meta reputation work, especially when I get reputation removed in main?
So today I get a boost to reputation and then it was taken back. Looks like it has something to do with sock puppet accounts mentioned in another question: Removing sock puppet accounts
I visited ...
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Could we embed small games in the site theme?
Assuming we had the means and permission to go way beyond the SE norms, could we insert a functional 256x256 square, like so?
I'm not married to Tetris. But surely we could insert some ...
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Removing sock puppet accounts
Lately we've been experiencing a sock puppet issue. This person has multiple accounts, they create poor answers and poor questions. It appears they're now upvoting poor questions (or it's another sock ...
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Bounty Award button misaligned
Creating my first bounty on SE today, I noticed that the Bounty Award Button is slightly misaligned. Maybe I'm just OCD about it but I think it should be fixed. Just centered and a nice space between ...
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Why is my recent “retag” privilege not available?
At 500 reputation, one earns the privilege of retagging. It is allegedly an alternative to editing a post (which requires edit approval), yet I have never seen this retagging option. The "Retag" ...
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Can my question be improved?
NPC AI articles for walking and fighting?
I'm still looking for how to implement a walking non-player character which I think is on-topic. I don't really think that the question should have been ...
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Downvoting shouldn't be so easy
This is something I (luckily) rarely have to deal with, but a lot of times I stumble upon very interesting question here, which get good or not so super-precise or explicitly detailed answers.
Often ...
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Why doesn't “trusted user” apply to tag synonyms? Is this a bug?
I'm curious of anybody knows the rationale for excluding the tag synonym suggestion feature from the set of features trusted users are allowed to perform?
It seems particularly odd to me that, as a ...
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In-content [tag]'s have a CSS, margin issue
Through out the whole site, where [tag:something] is used, or where framework inherits the same behavior, there is a problem with CSS.
Check thismechanics (before the tag, the letter s is hid, but ...
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Shouldn't [audio] and [sound] be merged together?
I'm talking about sound and audio here.
sound has the following description:
Audio (heard) output of a game.
audio has this:
The audio component of a game, representing what the player ...
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Sides of tags show through error message
I accidentally clicked downvote on a question and observed this:
This bug is unique to GameDev, due to having triangles on the side of tags here:
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Tag suggestion: Reverse-Engineering
I often see questions where a user is interested not in copying a game as a whole but in pulling apart a particular game mechanic in order to better understand how it works and apply this to their own ...
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Where should I take opinion based discussions?
I happen to have lots of topics I wish to discuss with other game programmers. The problem is that these topics are completely opinion-based, and not question-answer based, and therefore not apt for ...
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There is no point closing something as too localized
I have no doubt that this thread will get many down votes, but lately I often find questions that are closed with "Closed as too localized". What is the point of a Q&A site if questions cannot be ...
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Are switching engine questions okay?
I'm considering switching my game over to a different engine. Would it be an acceptable question to explain what I'm going for, what I'm using, why I'm switching, and ask what engine would best suit ...
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What is a PR-bomb?
@TrevorPowell said he deleted a lot of this question's details due to a "PR-BOMB".
I'm not sure what he means by "PR-BOMB"
To me that question does appear to have an agenda of some sort.
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Question edit view displays same text for two edit descriptions
My edit's very atypical description exactly matches the one for @msell's edit. Either his description matched mine exactly or automatically duplicated it, or the page is displaying my description ...
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Are the “game-mechanics” and “game-design” tags redundant?
Anything about game-mechanics which is on-topic is by definition game-design. I could not think of a counterexample, so I've proposed a synonym.
Supporting evidence: gameplay is already synonymous ...
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Why was the 'simple snake game' question protected?
This question (which apparently just picked up a new mediocre answer, thus moving to the top of the questions stack) was apparently auto-protected by Community some time back. My question is why: was ...
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How can i earn enough reputation to comment?
I often find that i can answer a question partially, can help steer people in the right direction or provide a link with more information. These things however are almost never good enough for a full ...
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Are programming-game questions acceptable?
I've been trying out an AI programming game lately. It's not really game development per se, but it is AI programming. It also happens to be a difficult topic to search for, having only the terms ...
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Requesting tag synonyms
Note: I could not already find a question on Meta answering this. If there is one, then please provide a link.
I've been looking through the tags recently, and have seen a few that I think deserve to ...
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Is this a separate site from gamedev.se?
I notice I have all the rep from my gamedev account, but none of the badges...? I'm confused. Is this (meta.gamedev) a separate site or not?
Is the rep linked all into one?
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I don't understand the difference between “stackoverflow” and “programmers” [closed]
As the title says.
Damn you 30 characters.
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Chat.SE is down?
I know this isn't a question, but for the time being, chat.stackexchange.com is giving a 500 Internal Server Error, and none of the chatrooms seem to be working correctly. It doesn't appear to be just ...
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Generated vs Generation (vs Procedural-Generation and Content-Generation)
Prompted by this question over on main, there seems to be a lot of redundancy/confusion around these tags. I feel like both 'Generated' and 'Generation' are probably bad tags as neither suggests ...
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How it comes I was able to edit someone else question?
Saw a question and noticed it could use some formatting on code, clicked on 'edit' and did the work. Then it occurred to me that I don't have rep enough for this. Checked the reputation list and ...
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Should there be a difference between 'state' tags and 'fsm' tags?
Are there any questions that could pertain specifically to a state that are not inherent in an overall fsm (finite state machine)? It seems like any 'state' tag falls under the fsm umbrella because ...
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Is it fine to ask what are tools that could solve your problem?
Say you're confronted with a new problem and you don't know what tools exist to solve it. Is it fine to create a question describing your problem and asking what tools are used for that task?
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Gamedev causing a memory leak?
Lately I've been noticing very high RAM usage from Chrome. A little investigation points to Gamedev.stackexchange.com being the offending website:
This is found by using Chrome's Task Manager, by ...
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Curious for a second-opinion: Would this answer pass review?
Got this in the review stack and though it was pretty borderline. The question asks about a basic implementation of applying an acceleration based on a key press. Here's the answer:
you need to ...
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I'm making a simulation of X, and want to know Y about X
What do we think of questions ostensibly about non-game-making topics which are being asked in order to create a game which simulates those topics accurately?
In meta we had a related conversation ...
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Link clarity in code tags
Sometimes it is useful to link directly to documentation for a specific function in your questions/answers. And in many cases, one will often want to put the function name in `` tags, like this: ...
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Why should 'How was the technique in X done' be considered off-topic?
We get a lot of people asking about a certain technique in a game.
eg:
How did oldschool dungeon crawlers ie Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder render?
How to make SpaceDown / Ninja jump Game ...
