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Like a vegetarian barbecuing hamster?

@tzenes you're just annoyed you're at the top ;-)

People find a game-rec question they like. They advocate game-rec (look at x, y, z). Eventually an argument takes place. They then start advocating trying to find a middle ground (well maybe we get rid of some game-rec but not all). Eventually, they start to look at the shear volume of game-rec and they finally decide, get rid of them all

UBIs DRM is fun. You can't play games you purchased without an internet connection, so awesome.

wait what, no portal

you missed out on portal?

Watching Grace argue is kind of like sitting in a Zen garden. All my problems seem to disappear and everything feels right with the world.

I would love to start recommending games like Wild ARMs, Mana Khemia, Bunny Must Die, Lethal Application, Suguri, Trigger Heart Exelica, and a host of other games. But what am I going to get out of it if the people just take the recommendation, play on their own, and don't bother to return with questions?

To go back to game recommendations and "post-gaming-conundrums" as I'll call it, a site filled primarily with lists of games and such looks a lot less like a site people come to for gaming help. To me, it would look a lot like people don't care as much for the site in terms of getting help while gaming, just as a place to return when you're done.

Rather, it's a two-fold concern derived from the fact we're running on the Stack Exchange engine. An engine which is developed for creating Q&A sites. I don't want to push people away from using us as Q&A, but I do want to try and restrict what it is that we do that isn't Q&A. Focus on real answers being provided to real questions is what will put us in the market for being the top source for gaming answers.

Actually now that I think it through, maybe deleting these questions is sending the wrong message. Perhaps seeing so many recommendations closed discourages them. Its hard to say without concrete evidence.

I want deleting game-rec to be the norm

I think its simple. We say this site does not exist for game recommendations, it exists for serious question and answer

would you rather have a site where you can ask questions about 10 games or 10 million?

to get the crowd we need the Skeets

there's much more games than experts

Some people treat gaming like a science

suppose you're a hard core theorycrafter on Elitistjerks. You know the exact formula for calculating the dps of a subtalty dagger rogue at level 80. Why would you come to our site?

god damn you people and your game-rec questions...

blasphemy

...there is none :<

Definitely annoying

I think McKay might be harmful to the site

or maybe not harmful, but annoying

It's a mouse.

all you have to do is remove Microsoft's dick from your mouth and its quite a pleasant experience

so we shouldn't base our strategy on what could happen

I'm of the "When in doubt, wait to see what happens" philosophy :-p

On the one hand, someone with specialized knowledge might be attracted to these questions not being answered (as they feel useful). On the other, they may feel that they'd be the only ones and not want to join

but it's also important that the people who ask the questions that attract 'tribal knowledge' don't get disheartened by not being answered. I think it's bad to have questions with 0 answers, especially during beta.

so if I ask the question now, and supply the answer, that's little more than rep whoring. But if I don't, anyone with that question may never come along and find the answer

(mag ik ons eraan herinneren dat we niet de enigen zijn hier? :))

game-rec is going to kill us one way or another. I have a feeling that discusion will never be over.

Just like our game-rec lynching

I think the Q&nothings fail because they have bad questions, not a lack of answers

The people with huge spreadsheets to figure out the best damage in Puzzle Quest, or who know the secret hard container on Megaman 7 in the Jungle Zone

if we become a resource where gamers can ask and find answers right after the release of a game: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

vote to close this discussion as off-topic

@badp I suggested to have closed questions removed from the StackExchange list, since we shouldn't advertise those

"The mod is now Diamond!"

sorry, I don't use old spice @Oak

hell no, people will just upvote/fav any question so we won't close it

I think @Ivo is in every room.

people'll be upset, but so be it