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Community Promotion Ads - 2012
Congratulations, RPG! As a perk of graduating, you get Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the ...
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Edit the question or answer your own question?
As far as I know, it is okay to answer your own questions. It is also recommended to show your progress with a question, and this is easily accomplished by editing the question itself and ...
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Are communities tools?
In our FAQ we explicitly allow questions about RPG tools and equipment.
Recently we got this question which someone suggested fell under that clause of the FAQ.
Are online communities really tools? ...
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Is there a functional purpose to putting things in code text here?
Fellow member @SteveC has been doing diligent work editing questions and answers to put the names of Dungeons & Dragons terms into code text: from Toughness to Toughness, as an example. Is there a ...
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What does “Serial Upvoting Reversed” signify?
Yesterday (and again today) it appears that someone was going through FATE questions for the first time, upvoting the ones that they thought were good, I suppose. But at the beginning of today, there ...
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Can the reputation system be improved upon?
I just got on the wrong side of the reputation stick on the Gaming SE, by asking a question against their specific flavor of FAQ and policies. It got me to thinking, and I wanted to ask whether the ...
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How to deal with questions that just don't understand the scope of the RPG landscape?
We've had several questions lately that we've been closing. What point-buy systems of magic (like psionics in 3e D&D) are there? , What are the main Creative Commons powered tabletop RPG out ...
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Are questions about how a rule has changed over the years on topic?
Currently, there's discussion about the question How do the rules that govern a Cleric's Turn Undead ability vary among D&D editions? and concern over its usefulness. We've had other ...
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Account merge request for a friend
I just convinced my co-author Samuel Russell to proper-register on this site. Unfortunately, his cookie-auth has expired or is on a formatted computer.
Can we merge:
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Contest running with Obsidian Portal
Notice an influx of traffic? Maybe? Sorry to blindside the community with this, but we're running a contest with the website/blog/podcast Obsidian Portal! Details here. This has been in the works for ...
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How should questions about the new version of Hackmaster be tagged?
I'm reading through the recently-released Player's Handbook of the new version of Hackmaster, and I plan to ask a few questions about it in the next few days. I was thinking about it, though, and I'm ...
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Use non-breaking spaces in sidebar banner links
There’s a dialog sidebar with links to the About page, FAQ and meta. Unfortunately, the “FAQ” link is broken in half, resulting in an (1) unaesthetic and (2) slightly confusing visual.
This could ...
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Does Brian Ballsun-Stanton have a book published yet?
No, really. Each post of his is like a tiny lecture by my statistics professor. A tour-de-force on the philosophy of game-making by Brian Ballsun-Stanton would be informative to read.
So come on ...
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Perhaps The Back Room and The Game Table are confusingly named
While I do love the name of my room, Going to "the Back Room" for gaming and "The Game Table" for talking does seem slightly counterintuitive: every so often someone comes by the room and we have to ...
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What needs clearing up?
As our site evaluation showed, we have a few question topics that need clearing up.
What are these topics and how can we improve them?
Are there tags or subjects that need more attention on the ...
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Badge spacing in top bar is misleading
I just glanced at my badges and was very confused why I only had two silvers...
It took me a few seconds to realize that the spacing was off. Compare to meta:
I don't know if the difference is ...
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Accepted answers in answer tab are hard to distinguish
On the answers tab of a user's profile, the green vote-count of an accepted answer is hard to distinguish from the grey vote-count of the others. In the user's summary, accepted answers (and questions ...
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Big X in Usernames?
In the font used for usernames, the X is oddly distinctly larger than the other letters (see: my username on answers here and on the main site). Not just a little, like it seems like a half-capital ...
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Make the font used to show user reputation in posts a little more readable?
First of all, I think the new design is amazing. It elegantly combines the fantasy and sci-fi settings that tend to be prominent in RPG's, and also uses the pencil drawings at the bottom corners of ...
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Were Accounts Purged?
I participated early on in the beta, but found that when I logged in after the official launch I didn't have any reputation or history. Are/were accounts inactive for a period of time purged?
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Welcome banner not seen
I am not seeing the welcome banner as show on the design for RPG.se . Is it my browser (Chrome) or something that is not yet done?
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Answers jump when hovering over “feedback”
When visiting the site as an anonymous user, hovering over the "feedback" link below an answer causes the following answers to jump down by about 5 pixels, and back up again when you move the mouse ...
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New Design Launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you're still seeing the old ...
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Promoting our site launch?
Hopefully by now you've seen Jin's Awesome Design for RPG.se, so you know we're moving toward a launch. The question is, how can we make the launch as successful as possible? How and where can we ...
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Design for RPG.se
Thank you for your helpful suggestions in the design brainstorming post.
I am very excited to present to the community the design I've been working on. The overall look and feel I'm going after is a ...
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How should we improve character optimization question tagging?
We have the optimisation tag, but char-op questions are not appearing in char-op searches.
(see Evaluating your own site - a check for quality )
Should we create optimisation tag synonyms for ...
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Evaluating your own site - a check for quality
About a month ago or so, some people might remember that I mentioned doing a quality review for this site for seeing whether RPG is finally ready to graduate. Well, it went pretty swell, but we'd like ...
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Are “critique my home-brewed content” questions on topic?
If I've developed some home-brewed content for my favorite RPG, such as a new class or monster for a d20 system, would posting it in a question asking for balance-related feedback be appropriate? ...
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We're no longer sketchy; someone should update the FAQ
As the title says, we're now sketchy-less and the FAQ needs updating.
Edit: Posted to Meta.SO here.
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Should the general game identification tag always mark the last installment? (on the specific example of GURPS)
Most of the questions tagged gurps at the moment actually refer to GURPS 4th Edition.
Tasks relevant to 3rd edition only are also tagged gurps, very few questions are tagged gurps-4e and gurps both ...
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What are the criteria for graduation from beta?
In reading about the recent beta design changes, I saw a mention of if/when we get graduate out of beta. I did a quick bit of noodling around and found nothing on graduation from beta.
So, what are ...
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WFRP by Edition tags
Is there a documented penalty for firing into melee suggests in the first comment that a single WFRP tag might not be enough. Of the editions, 2nd and 3rd probably garner the most attention (3rd if ...
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Question Contest Ideas?
As most of you meta-heads know, RPG.SE does pretty well in terms of visits, and we're excellent about answering questions. What we've always been a little weak on is the volume of questions. Many ...
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Why was my question regarding adventures containing a crashed spaceship “poor Q&A”?
In the comments to my question Where to find an adventure with a crashed spaceship wax eagle noted that my question makes for poor Q&A.
I would like a clarification of what this means. To my ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Why are some RPG not at all present here?
I just came across this SE site and checked to see if the two RP-games I'm familiar with are represented, and sadly they are not.
I'm not greatly surprised that the Swedish DoD clone Drakar och ...
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Questions that don't have a 'correct' answer
I am having problems on deciding which answers to accept on Questions like Rules of player inventions or, perhaps a better example, creating emotions. I mean, strictly speaking, there is no "right" ...
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Social Network integration
When I was strolling Biology.SE, I noticed that they seem to have a twitter bot: On Biology.SE (See the middle event), on Twitter.
I would be willing to dive into a bit of Python and Stack Exchange / ...
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Diceless Technique Question
Regarding What other diceless tabletop RPG techniques are there?
I don't think it's a game-rec question at all - it's more of an exploration of what the different techniques are for diceless ...
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Asking (good) questions that you know will not get answered
It seems like there are no experts for the PnP "The dark Eye" on this site (As the tag had to be created when I was posting my question, and no one could give me an answer).
Is it okay if I post more ...
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Site stats: “1% answered”
For me, the site stats show "1% answered".
I guess that is a bug?
Screenie:
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Petition to Keep Sketchy! [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we keep Sketchy?
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/the-new-stack-exchange-beta-theme-2/
According to that blog post, a new theme will be rolling out to beta ...
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Can we keep Sketchy? [closed]
In light of this I'd like to make a featured request.
Please allow RPG.SE to keep the sketchy theme.
When I first came to this site I didn't notice the sketchy theme, I thought it was part of the ...
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My notifications are wrong!
I've been getting notifications in my SE inbox as normal, but the counts included are wrong. In particular I got a notification on my TPK question that says I have five answers, but I only have ...
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What can we do about questions with no accepted answer and no specified reason for it?
I've come across multiple questions that are more than a week old, have answers for them (some are pretty great in my opinion) yet none of them have been accepted and, worse yet. there is no ...
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Should we ban Game/System identification questions?
Jeff's Final Blog post discussed the issue of identification questions. We've gotten them from time to time.
I support banning them for the following reasons
RPG questions are often potentially ...
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The use of tags in question detail
A recent question, Challenging Talkers in SIFRP, uses a large number of tags in the question. I wonder if this is proper (it can be), but also makes it hard to read the question detail.
Inline tags ...
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How do I make my adventure time Question better?
My question about adventure time has been closed on the grounds of it not being constructive, for the second time, despite being re-opened. I've tried to fix it so that it is more constructive.
How ...
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Should questions include System/Setting in title if tagged with system/setting?
For example: "WFRP2e--Does Tzenntch bully Nurgle, if so, can he be reported, and to who?"
Then tag the question with WFRP and religion-and-deities. My thought is that the question lead should be ...
