> Meta Stack Overflow will serve as the “National Capital” where we process feedback not just for Stack Overflow but for the core engine itself — while the smaller meta sites are akin to regional or state capitals.
:2781 But just because something that is a good idea will need to eventually bubble up there does not mean that issue should not be raised 'locally' first.
To roll with the metaphor, if I want to bring something to the attention of Congress, the standard route is for me to engage my own local elected representatives to do so on my behalf.
Wikipedia, when browsed via the Wii's Internet Channel, has a nice large font view. I'd like to be able to browse Gaming.SE from a Wii in a similar fashion, too. Currently I can't even search questions or tags since the Wii uses a virtual keyboard on input fields such that search on type won't wo...
The issue isn't that the feature enhancement wouldn't be broadly 'useful' across the entire SE network. The issue is that the feature enhancement is substantially more useful to our subset of the network, and that we have the best demonstrated use case for such an enhancement.
:2837 But you don't need to cross post on 20+ sites? The only site you would ever want to cross post onto is MSO, and only after you've discussed the issue to such a degree on the 'local' meta that you can not only raise the issue, but point to fairly broad community support (or lack thereof for those that deny the request).
Obviously anyone can just put http://steamcommunity.com/openid into the generic OpenID field, but a nice button would be good to make it easier for PC gamers to sign in. Nice buttons are available here: http://steamcommunity.com/dev
(Just so no one thinks I'm trying to be sneaky, I should mentio...
Look the bottom line here, is there is no reason that we shouldn't first discuss these things on meta.gaming to figure out if they're worthwhile before going to Jeff (or MSO)
if a request is not getting a discussion chances are its because not enough epople care about it
So if I want to request that there would be a tab with only my interesting questions, I should ask on Gaming.SE first because I happen to want it there?
@ArdaXi you're asking the average user to do something that they don't know they should do. jeff says over and over and over... don't make me think. Let them post it on our meta and let us raise it to MSO if its worthy.
And on top of all of that, I think it's in the interest of our own community to have a healthy meta site with some attention and discussion. If allowing feature requests to bubble up from there helps make that happen, then it's in our interest to do so.
> generally I feel the mods should escalate the requests they feel have merit to meta.so > but I would prefer that they start on the per-site metas for feedback locally first
And was basically going to draw the conclusion, from our last thread, in which we haven't come up with a manageable solution that solves the problems I posed.
:2950 There's a difference in definition, not caring about a meta question means not being involved with the issue. Not caring about a parent question means you're not interested in the game or that particular aspect.
1. A lot of core engine requests already exist on MSO. The "add tags to the related title suggestions" idea, the "show interesting tags", even the "Steam OpenId" are all on MSO already.
2. Hahahahahahahahaha at the concept of things getting good measures of attention on Meta Stack Overflow.
3. We're a different audience, so we have slightly different ways of thinking than the Meta Stack Overflow community. It helps to gauge what our own thoughts are before casting it to what basically is a different country.
Well, they honestly won't get any less stale on Meta Stack Overflow, since half of them already are anyway. As for duplication, don't worry too much about it.
Some measure of duplication is acceptable, especially as it serves as a measure of convenience to users of Gaming to not have to walk all the way to Meta Stack Overflow.
In general metas are black (grey?) holes -- once something gets migrated to meta, that's it, it can't be migrated anywhere else. This is 100% intentional, and all metas will behave this way.
(yes, you could make a case that we should support migrate-to-meta-so since that's the "national capital", perhaps.. but it feels risky to me.)
@Grace no, I haven't been. But with the release of Civ5 I've broken into the first page of users (along with my Civ5 nemesis bwarner), and thought I should be a little more connected to the meta/chat.
Reputation will always be linked to popularity, whose rhymes and reasons are hard to figure out. This is why tzenes is our local Jon Skeet, because SC2 questions are simply more popular right now.
(not that I think SC2 questions will be LESS popular in the future)
Alternatively, I can write about Bunny Must Die. Now THAT game has hundreds of questions, and will put us a landmark in the niche/indie/import gaming scene.
I don't know, all in all, how is it I have all the rep I have, when I consider I don't have sc2 or df or civ5 or whatever it is you all get excited about :p
Whichever you know/love better. You'll be working to figure out how to write in the new form, so if you can lessen the thinking you have to do about the content/ideas, you'll do better.
No secrets to worry about treading on. Short game, I know where the demo is, and it's simple to get into
...for a vertical scrolling shooter where you cannot jump or fly
@badp That question suggests FRAPS (without telling me how I might set it up on my TV instead of my laptop), DVR (no budget), Pinnacle Dazzle (no budget), and to play Halo or Skate.
@Grace to record from your TV to your Computer you need to out put the data from the tv (through some means like coaxial or rca) into your computer (usually to the graphics card) and record from there
if you can't plug the out put of your tv into the input of your computer (which most computers can't) then you're out of luck
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