I am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse?
I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...
Like I said though, I think part of what we have to take into consideration is what would comprise a healthy level of exclusion at this point in the site's timeline.
As JustinP8 pointed out you can also check here:
http://www.joystiq.com/Instrument-Compatibility-Matrix/
But there's no need to read that, as long as we're talking about a game released in the last 2 years or so, all the plastic instruments are broadly cross-compatible and work in either game -...
While we have several threads in regards to [game-rec], but I think that this issue is part of that, though we don't have a separate commentary for it.
I don't know, @ArdaXi can the closed questions act as a deterrent? We're dealing with people here not water. Sticking a few heads on pikes might be healthy. Maybe the bailing here should be the open game-rec's that are bad.
Excluding game-rec and other lists isn't a measure of elitism. Or at least, I hope people aren't using it in that fashion.
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.
If people are trying to see Gaming as the "end all community for all things gaming-related", they will be sorely disappointed. Even getting past lists, we can't cater to this idea. Even on the problem solving front, we have no facilities for comfortable hosting of walkthroughs or extensive guides.
Then you consider things like scheduling net-games, no less a social activity than polling for a new game and no less of an important facet of being a gamer. But that, along with many other aspects, are simply not something we're suited to dealing with on a parent site that's meant to be Q&A.
Repositories represent a completely different class of knowledge than what the rest of our Q&A consists of. You can be an expert at knowing different kinds of games, for example, or knowing the mod community of a specific game to know what is and isn't around.
However, support for repositories is also a lot different. Compared to our other Q&A, repositories require a lot of research, maintenance, and information to be useful. They also require a different style of support to handle them.
Put it quite simply, they're a fundamentally different element than our other questions, but we're trying to house them in the same storage space.
Scratch that, let's do that example later.
What's more important is not the necessity of separate storage spaces, but the necessity of large storage spaces. In order for us to be able to support building willy-nilly repositories like people are asking, we need to be able to support every conceivable list.
When you get past limiting recommendations/lists by genre and platform, you reach the actual features of the game. Any restrictions we could attempt to place on these are going to be fully arbitrary and subjective - there's really no concrete and universal concept to what features are of more value, how many features is too many, and how smaller feature scopes compare to larger feature scopes. So it is unreasonable to restrain these effectively.
I suppose my goal at this point is to then trail on to discuss how the expected volume and maintenance needed to properly support repositories will both tax the people who have to keep them maintained, and will also split our purpose up too much. I would also probably reiterate the part where it's a focus on Q&A that will distinguish us apart from other sites, not trying half-successfully to accomplish too many things at once.
The SO maxim that "No question is too trivial or newbie" applies to us as well. It's a matter of what we can reasonably support as a Stack Exchange site.
But I still feel I have no clear idea of what measures we're going to take in order to accomplish those goals and what effect those measures will have on the userbase.
The question of elitism does keep coming up in regards to "experts," which was what I was mainly asking about. For example, @tzenes said that by supporting the [game-rec] tag, we would be turning off potential experts for the site.
Experts is a loaded term. I'll refer you to my comments on the thread of concern you originally linked.
Expertise in building repositories is a matter of throwing in experience you have had with no necessary backing but the fundamental "rightness" of staying on-topic
A game recommendation covers a whole different concern than curiosities or problems provide. It's a matter of what to do when not gaming, basically. For the most part, people look for new games because they either completed the game they were just on, or decided it wasn't worth the effort to complete.
Because of the support necessary to handle repositories, people will have to devote a good portion of their time towards their maintenance, which means we end up with a lot of focus on people coming to our site because they're done with games.
As far as Oak's opinion, @Fallen, I once again iterate that what constitutes a good quantity of features/elements to make a list is extremely arbitrary. People put different amounts of value on different criteria, some will see it as more than sufficient for only 3 "big" features in their eyes.
We already got enough "Their question is still open, mine's just about as restrictive, why is it closed?" before we had this nebulous "too broad" system. It really isn't going to solve anything in my opinion.
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.
I mean, at 90+ game rec questions, how many of them have actually had a person come back to us about the game they were recommended?
The answer is in the single digits, if we have any. I've been watching this.
Just check the [game-rec] tag, see all the authors, and see how many new tags we got from those lists.
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?
And that's in the situation that someone might like the suggestion I throw out. When you compare to how voluminous the lists will traditionally be, then there's going to be even chance that there won't be any pickers except from the upvotes of people who have already played and probably completed the game.
I know I've found several of the [game-rec] questions to be very useful and have favorited them for stuff to play. As I understand it, I guess I'm in the minority in feeling that there is worth and usefulness in those questions even if they help only a few people who have the same question rather than in a broad scope.
So I guess I'll just discontinue my feedback in that regard.
Well I'm going to go and do some more gaming, myself. Perhaps I'm just the wrong kind of user for this site; I guess I'll have to rethink my commitment. I appreciate your taking the time for this discussion and sharing your insights and opinions.
On the contrary, I think the community of the site is very important. Whether intentional or not, a community has already formed and will continue to grow and I think that it something that needs to be taken into account.
We have a divided community, unfortunately. What this division implies, it depends. My hope is that we are capable of resolving the division so that we can keep the most of both halves.
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On Windows XP, When I try and delete a specific file it says :
Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the
disk is not full or write-protected
and that the file is not currently in
use.
How can I go around this warning and delete it anyway?
My ice cream doesn't feel creamy enough. I got the recipe from Good Eats, and I can't tell if it's just the recipe or maybe that I'm just not getting my "batter" cold enough before I try to make it (I let it chill overnight in the refrigerator, but it doesn't always come out of the machine looki...
I believe that if a recipe is sufficiently "standardized" such that it is practically a question on preparation, it should be considered on topic. For anything complex enough to have many different recipes, it is too difficult to manage effectively.
I have a wonderful pancake recipe that I would like to convert into a waffle recipe. Is there a generally accepted formula for doing this? Based on other recipes I've seen, it looks like the amount of oil is the main difference. Would more flour or other ingredients need to be added to compens...
I have always been intrigued by salt pork at the store. Yesterday I saw salt pork sliced like bacon and couldn't resist buying it. I tried cooking it like bacon, but it did not turn out as I had hoped. What should I do with it?
Salt pork is usually used primarily as a flavouring for a dish. It's similarities to bacon are really just superficial as it generally contains a lot more fat and it's not smoked.
Essentially, when used for cooking, the fat is rendered down to form a rich base for the ingredients that will follo...
The guy asks what to do, and he explains how it is used
As JustinP8 pointed out you can also check here:
http://www.joystiq.com/Instrument-Compatibility-Matrix/
But there's no need to read that, as long as we're talking about a game released in the last 2 years or so, all the plastic instruments are broadly cross-compatible and work in either game -...
On Windows XP, When I try and delete a specific file it says :
Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the
disk is not full or write-protected
and that the file is not currently in
use.
How can I go around this warning and delete it anyway?
I hear that avocado is really good for you and I want to try to eat more of it. Other than guacamole what types of food a recipes do you recommend?
I have a wonderful pancake recipe that I would like to convert into a waffle recipe. Is there a generally accepted formula for doing this? Based on other recipes I've seen, it looks like the amount of oil is the main difference. Would more flour or other ingredients need to be added to compens...
I have always been intrigued by salt pork at the store. Yesterday I saw salt pork sliced like bacon and couldn't resist buying it. I tried cooking it like bacon, but it did not turn out as I had hoped. What should I do with it?
