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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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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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Should we be more exclusive?
I mean this kind of thing is all over but here's an example from today:
I mean there can't be a more stereotypical noob entry "I just wanna make a game" type question.
It's a bad question because ...
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Guidelines on asking game industry questions
A lot of non-programming questions on this site are closed because they are "broad" or "open-ended". Game design is not a science and hence there are bound to be multiple answers. There is an ...
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Are questions abut popular game mechanics and gameplay irrelevant?
How do you prevent inflation in a virtual economy?
Penalty for collision during casual top-down racing gameplay
I noticed Byte56 said these questions about gameplay mechanics are unrelated to this ...
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What is a good question about Game industry careers?
I saw this question
' Is this really a good question? '
asking about a game development career related question. The conclusion was the question asked about should be closed. The reasoning was not ...
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Should this question be closed?
How to achieve highly accurate car physics such as Liveforspeed?
I read this question and thought it is definitely about:
"How do I get started"
what language/engine/SDK you should learn ...
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Music resources question collect,mine
Although people agreed that "asset mines" are OT, there are 3 music licensing questions which are really good and have valuable content.
See here and here and here
The basic question behind these ...
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Game design questions: should we be more lax with regard to SE's question/answer format?
By adhering to a strict non-open-ended, non-chatty, question/answer format, it becomes pretty much impossible to help people to improve their game design. So instead of covering questions that ...
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Gameplay tag synonym for game-design
I've just gained the privilege edit synonyms (yipeeh!), this gave me an excuse to browse around the synonyms database to see what was going on in there.
Turns out, I'm very surprised that gameplay is ...
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12 Hours of GDSE: Is quality going downhill?
I have just harvested the questions asked on Gamedev.SE in the last 12 hours (from when I started writing this). Here they are, from most recent to last:
The most popular pattern for game-related ...
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Should I answer questions that do not belong here?
I downvoted and flagged this question, because the user was asking the typical "what technology should I use" stuff, and it was fairly obvious that he didn't read or that he didn't understand the FAQ. ...
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Is it right when forum formed question gets up-voted, but simple question gets downvoted?
I've seen couple of forum questions and they get upvoted:
they are about problem of one person in certain code
code problems,bugs are caused by mistakes and lack of understanding of programming ...
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Are the entity-system and component-based tags describing the same thing?
We have these two tags: entity-system and component-based.
I am under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that an entity system is exactly the same thing as a component-based system, and that they are ...
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Should “Did not do the research” questions be answered or penalised?
Question
Questions such as this one show a gross lack of even basic research. (My answer to the question is in fact an almost straight explanation of Google's first result.)
So far, I tend to answer ...
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Is asking “Where can i find people that are x / to do y” a bad question?
The title say everything. I've faced some questions like this some days ago, and another today, here, you can take it as example: Where can I find some beginners to learn and work with?
Also, you can ...
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“Where can I find art resources” questions: off topic/not a real question?
Where can I find free game assets?
Where can I find free sprites and images?
Where can I find free sounds for my game?
Where can I find free music for my game?
etc.
These questions are just "list ...
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Unaswered questions list shows some questions with answers to them
Is this something that's a site-wide problem or just something to do with my user settings? If I go to http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/unanswered I get a couple questions scattered on the list with a ...
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Difference between official and non-official moderator
What's the difference between access to moderator tool(which requires 10000 rep point) and being an moderator(official moderator)?
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Devkit Questions
There's been a couple of questions relating to devkits, and console development details. Specifically, one asking What comes with a SDK, what language is used in an unreleased console, and ...
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A lot of answers remain unselected [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A good answer exists but is not accepted
A lot of questions in game dev have answers but they are not selected as an answer of the question. Can the situation be ...
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Has the -1 rep for downvoting a question or answer gone?
I haven't noticed a loss in rep for doing that recently; also on Gaming.
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Plug for Area 51 proposal
I'd like to plug an Area 51 proposal that might be relevant for many game developers. What's the best way for me to do that on Game Dev? It seems odd to make that into a question somehow. Even if I ...
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Points not getting added for voted up question
On gamedevelopment.stackexchange i have added the following question:
"Most useful free third party Android Game libraries?"
As of now it has been voted up 4 times. However, my points are still the ...
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Should we, and if so where, post solutions to problems if we use a solution which isn't one of the answers?
If you ask a question such as the following:
How can I design some feature X so
that it is Y, and supports Z?
(e.g. this question)
Obviously at some point you're going to work out how you did ...
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Are beginner “design review” questions acceptable?
This question on Stack Overflow was pointed out to me: RTS Game AI Thread
The essence of the question is, I suspect, fairly basic, and certainly touches on topics that have been covered here ...
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Adding the tag to the title. Yes or no?
See this question as an example.
The user added OpenGL to the title, and tagged the question OpenGL. What do you think about the "tag" being in the title?
I know that over at gaming SE, you ...
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How should multiple-questions-in-one be handled?
This question on the main site made me wonder. There have been a number of fairly broad, general questions asked already, but this question in particular consists (in my opinion) of several broad ...
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Answering questions the OP has asked elsewhere
I recently found this question here, and when searching for something else on SO, this same question. The OP has simply asked the same thing on two separate sites, at exactly (roughly) the same time.
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Answers changed scope of question: Rephrase or reask?
If I have a question to which the answers lead to realizations that dramatically change the scope or context of the question; should I edit the question to rephrase or expand it; or should I ask a new ...
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Eliminating word noise while editing a questions
By word noise I mean posts like.
Hi all you gurus,
<question here>?
thanks,
-joe somebody
If I've already opened the question for editing, poor grammar and whatnot, should I ...
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Question had its view count lowered by 1k!
My question had 2k views this afternoon and 6 hours later it's at 1k. Any reasons why?
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Can I create an “article” by posting a question and an answer directly?
Let's say that for a time I have been researching a specific question or topic on my own and I've come up with an answer. The answer seems to me to be complete and satisfactory to my needs. At this ...
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Accepting Answers
I'm getting the sense that we have trouble accepting answers to questions. I don't know if this is because many of the questions asked are asking for general input to a question rather than a specific ...
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Are questions about how to design an implementation of certain parts of a game appropriate?
When I'm stuck on some aspect in one of the many dead-end game projects I start, can I ask for advice about how to design it here?
If I have an idea about how I want something to work functionally, ...
