How can censor players on the Internet Go Server (IGS)?
It says in the help you can block players from matches by "censoring" them, but there is no "censor" command.
@tsuma534 The help center does say "Questions about computer implementations of board games are fine." and we have other questions about computer versions of board games.
@Jefromi This is a question about a feature that is unique to a specific computer version of the game. Which is unlikely to help anyone but the person asking and they can get better help with the actual services documentation.
@JoeW All computer version questions are about specific versions. This question would help anyone else playing that same version, just like all questions here help anyone else playing the same game. And... people who play that version are likely to know answers too, so this seems a fair place to ask (whether or not the documentation covers it), just as we take questions about board games that are answered by the rules that came with the game.
@Jefromi Board Games Stack Exchange is about board games not about an unrelated feature on a website. For your average visitor to this site will a question about how to block users on a website have anything to do with how they play the game go or questions they have about it? When it comes down to it we are not here to provide customer support for a game on a website. If you really can't find it in the documentation then why not try emailing the customer support for the actual website?
@JoeW We essentially provide customer support for board games all the time, for example by explaining rules and how to play them. We never tell people "why not try emailing customer support" for those questions. And for physical board games, we handle things beyond the actual playing as well (e.g. interpersonal aspects). So if you want computer versions to be off topic, or limited to only things which are directly part of playing the game, that'd be a policy change, so you probably want to post on meta.
The question is about the computer version, not the physical version. And that's fine, because computer versions of games are on topic according to the help center.
I am trying to play Ticket to Ride for the iOS on the iPad (regular full version, not pocket) with friends over the internet (not local wifi). I tried using Game Center to issue a 'challenge', but it doesn't seem to work. I always end up in a room with random players when I use the 'local' play ...
Our help center says:
Questions about computer implementations of board games are fine.
and our close reasons include:
Questions about computer-based games (except for computer-based versions of board or card games) are off-topic here but can be asked on Arqade.
This seems to include ...
from what i read in that answer it is talking more about questions that do apply to both (aka rules bug) but in this case is asked about the computer version
not about something that does not and will never apply to the board game
no, it's clearly not just about things that exist in both physical and computer versions
The title of the question is "Are questions specifically about the computer version of a game on topic?"
You're free to disagree as much as you want, but the community has resolved this issue in the way the community resolves such issues. You can try to start a new discussion on meta and see if attitudes have changed, of course.
loaded question, let me try to respond carefully...
I don't think that we should do tech support in general, but I don't agree that everything about a computer version of a game that doesn't apply to the physical version is "tech support" and should be banned.
And that question shows clear community support for that notion.
The question is a specific case of "how do I use the computer version?" which is pretty much the most basic possible question about computer versions; if we allow them we pretty much have to allow that kind of thing.
We have a tag called designer-board-games, and I'm not sure what it means. There is no tag wiki and it is currently tagged on a question about game design, and question about physical vs computer implementations of board games, and a question about Agricola.
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about the most popular question we could possibly have, 11 total votes on the answer.
I get that you disagree with the conclusion that was reached in this case, but you can't just dismiss the whole idea of making decisions based on meta because of that.
We have a tag called designer-board-games, and I'm not sure what it means. There is no tag wiki and it is currently tagged on a question about game design, and question about physical vs computer implementations of board games, and a question about Agricola.
Best explanation I could find for a d...
I don't think two separate meta questions asking the same thing is a good solution to a perceived lack of community consensus on the one meta question asking that thing
I agree with not allowing questions on the creation of Go software here.
As to using it, that should be fine in the general case. Go is clearly a boardgame, and as such, we allow discussions of computer implementations.
Questions should be about the game. Questions specifically about the soft...
> Questions should be about the game. Questions specifically about the software, such as "How can I get GnuGo to run on my Windows 95 machine?" might be better off over at gaming.stackexchange.com
You asked a question asking to make a decision about what you refer to about support questions.
Which is perhaps not productive, if it's a broad, vague category.
For example, is it a support question if it's an obscure rules question, where it's not clear to the OP if the official rules cover it?
We have tons of questions like that, and we don't tend to close them, because they're often answerable - maybe the OP overlooked something or there are errata somewhere.
@JoeW you keep getting hung up on this distinction between questions valid for all "versions" of a game, and questions that only apply to the software "version", and that's not a distinction that the rules actually make
@JoeW fortunately this issue has already been addressed, by the previous question. (Yes, I know, you're saying you don't think the votes are conclusive enough on it.)
@JoeW "what I consider on topic" isn't a decision you have to make, because we have established policies
@JoeW What if someone wants help operating the Credit Card machine in the Monopoly Electronic Banking variant? Should that be off topic, because it's a "support question" that only applies to one variant of the game?
For example, if you thought that miniature wargames should be off topic because they don't use boards or cards, you would be wrong, because the help center says they're on topic.
Same goes here - that policy has been there for the entire history of the site, and it's been brought up on meta at least four times, always with the community favoring keeping it that way.
@JoeW So it can be any minor detail, applying to only one version, and it can be something that's only tangentially connected to actually playing the game, but it's okay as long as it's a physical game. Once it's a computer version you want it to be much more widely applicable?
I mean... my answer would be pretty much the same still?
I think the policy doesn't need to change, and the previous support for the current policy and the lack of problems caused by it is pretty good evidence.
Yeah, the question was about things specifically about the computer version, so it was definitely meant to apply in general to things like "how do I play/use the computer version?" not just the mechanics that are shared with the physical version.