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Do we want to enable the photo widget for our site?
I'm in full support of including the photo widget here on meta, as long as screenshot-of-the-week continues to be consistent for the foreseeable future.
If screenshot of the week becomes inconsistent,...
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Let’s build some Arqade community ads - congratulate our winners!
Here is a more rounded, evenly scaled, png version.
DragonrageMod
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Do we want posts with <= -8 score to always appear on Meta Arqade's homepage?
Yes, we should allow downvoted meta posts to appear on the homepage
Meta posts, even those with negative scores, should remain visible to foster open discussion and ensure new users aren't ...
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22
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Increase tag length limit to 32 or 35
This is now at 35 - as of 8-8-2017, tags can be up to 35 characters long everywhere.
Big thanks to everyone who jumped in here to help make this site a test subject for this change - if anything ...
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Should we add [minecraft] to the tag blacklist?
I'm in favor of this.
If we clean up without addressing the underlying source of these tags then Arqade members & moderators will have to continually retag these posts.
It'd be a lot easier to ...
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Let’s build some Arqade community ads - congratulate our winners!
Some late entries:
A 'standard' ad, in white and black:
(The explosion graphic can be worked into the black version, as well)
For Movies.SE:
(Not sure if these are recognizable. I have a ...
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Do we want to enable the photo widget for our site?
Heck yeah.
Anything cool like this that could drive participation on Arqade should be utilized.
It's small enough that people who don't care won't be bothered, but big enough that it's noticeable ...
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Do we need a fifth custom off-topic close reason?
Yes. Currently, we lump together two distinct off-topic categories under a single close reason:
Questions about Game Design and Development are off topic. This includes speculative questions about ...
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Let's test out the Modded Minecraft Tech Support close reason
status-completed
This close reason is now active. We reviewed the stats in the following post, with majority community support for leaving the close reason in place:
Modded Minecraft Close Reason - ...
RobotnikMod
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Rename [aaaaaa] → [a-reckless-disregard-for-gravity]
I support this proposal.
It would also prevent confusion with the (pseudo-)sequals AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration)
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Should we add [minecraft] to the tag blacklist?
I already had that in mind when planning the tag cleanup, apparently I just forgot to actually write it down. So: Yes!
Also, minecraft-console should be blacklisted for the same reason.
I just ...
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Should we add a tag warning to [game-identification]?
Yes, we should add a warning to the game-identification tag. It is one of the most commonly seen questions that fail to meet the requirements defined in the tag.
Piggy-backing off the original post's ...
Timmy JimMod
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12
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Increase tag length limit to 32 or 35
Actioned
These tags were raised as examples and have now been changed as a result of this meta post. If you want a particular tag lengthened, please raise it as a separate meta question so the ...
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Should we add [minecraft] to the tag blacklist?
The blacklist for ^minecraft(-console)?$ is now in place. Since there is no way to dynamically specify a wildcard (so that we could pull a dynamic list of all existing examples of minecraft-* tags to ...
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Minecraft Wiki Migration - Link changes
There appears to be at least 3482 posts (15 of which are tag wikis) which contain one of these domains:
//minecraft.gamepedia.com/
//minecraft.fandom.com/
//minecraftwiki.net/
//www.minecraftwiki.net/...
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Do we want to enable the photo widget for our site?
This is live now:
Thanks so much to the SE team!
UnionhawkMod
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11
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Should we adjust Arqade's Roomba settings for auto-deleting questions to better preserve questions about old/obscure games?
I'm the author of the post from 2023 that raised this concern. Unsurprisingly, I strongly support making Arqade's Roomba settings more lenient.
Proposal: Disable the view count requirement entirely
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Do we want to enable the photo widget for our site?
Yes, it should be added.
Why Arqade users could benefit.
It would give users interesting content to see on a regular basis,
even if they never click to see the rest of the week's submissions. The ...
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Accepted
Make the meta mothership shoot its lasers too
status-completed
This was done as part of Stack Exchange's standardised site design rollout. Both main and meta-site motherships will now fire their lazors on page load, after a short delay.
RobotnikMod
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How to take back flags?
To retract a flag, simply click the flag button again, then click the "retract flag" button:
You will then get the message "Your flag has been retracted" near the flag button.
It is worth noting that ...
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Tagging for Minecraft Bedrock Edition
How Minecraft versions are organized
There are three main Minecraft codebases. To simplify, I'm gonna call them Java, Bedrock and Console.
Following are the versions of Java codebase:
Classic, Indev,...
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Should we update our /help/on-topic page?
Just so we can vote on this proposal, I'm making this post in favour of listing modded Minecraft tech support as off-topic in the on-topic page.
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Should we add [minecraft] to the tag blacklist?
Yes, absolutely.
The community here has done an incredible job of organizing minecraft content. If we do not blacklist it, new content will slowly (but 100% surely) become disorganized again.
...
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Link the Screenshot of the Week to the original image so we can see it in full size
Update: Thanks for the feedback, everyone. We addressed this as part of bug duty this week. The change isn't retroactive, but the next time the screenshot of the week is updated, it'll link to its ...
DesStaff
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Question stuck in reopen queue
This was one of the more complicated bugs I have ever encountered!
This issue was caused by our 'Leave Closed' modal being able to be submitted after selecting 'This question doesn't meet a [Community ...
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Do we need a fifth custom off-topic close reason?
I have added the option to add a 5th close reason for the main site; if there is a need for the meta site, let me know. I didn't see a specific custom close reason to be added, but once there is one ...
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Should The Bridge and a Discord room be bridged?
The Bridge and the Arqade Community Discord are now connected. Sends your thanks to Ginger who set all of this up for us.
WipqoznMod
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