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Should there be a Close vote category for technical support/customer service questions?
We somewhat regularly get questions posted that we really can't answer and are best directed at the technical support or customer service desk for a commercial entity. For example, we might see ...
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Should we disallow accounts with less than 100 reputation from posting links?
We've been getting a lot of ads disguised as questions and answers from newly created users. These ads almost always contain a link to a service the person or company is advertising. I think a ...
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How should I handle useful edits that also replace live links with archived links?
I'm not clear on the guidance for a certain type of edit that I've seen a number of times in my review queue. The general format is basically: replaces a dead link with an archived one replaces a ...
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Why are there vertically stacked curly braces in question titles?
I'm seeing vertically stacked curly braces {} in question titles as shown here: On Windows 10, it shows this way using Vivaldi (Chromium based) and Microsoft Edge. ...
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What's the difference between the [performance] and [optimization] tags?
performance × 774 optimization × 454 Do there need to be both? When should I use each?
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About Games and why they aren’t on the website
Why are there no games? You know what? You don’t need to call it gamedev.stackexchange.com because there is no game!
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Corporate account posted AI generated ad as a "question"
This user just posted a "question" that was actually an AI-generated ad for their company's services. They deleted the question before I could finish reporting it but I'm wondering if action ...
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Unity will be sponsoring Game Development
UPDATE: October 29, 2024 The sponsorship will run through December 31, 2024. We're pleased to announce that Unity will be sponsoring Game Development starting the week of August 26, running through ...
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Would a question like, "How can I make an Amiibo from an NFC card?" be allowed in Game Development?
I want to ask how to make an amiibo out of NFC cards, but Im not 100% sure if this kind of question is allowed here. Would this be ok in Game Development? If not, where should I go to ask this ...
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How to implement Three.js into my snippet
I have a question about Three.js, but I don't know how to implement Three.js code through a snippet. I can't do an import, but I did notice that you can add an external library. I'm new to these ...
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Is asking about game industry careers on topic?
Inspired by this question on the main site: Best courses on coursera for someone who's interested in game design and development [closed] This question was closed as off topic. I agree with the ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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Near-field-communication [nfc] recomendation
I want to ask a question about NFC, but I don't have enough reputation to create the tag. Can someone create it, or is there a similar tag to this?
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Adjust GameMaker tags to be one word, reflect legacy switch
Our tags for Gamemaker are game-maker and game-maker-studio-2. This tool hasn't been called "Game Maker" since 2012 when its name changed. (thanks @liggiorgio!) Should we change these tags ...
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Which tags are useless or blacklisted? [closed]
This question covers our list of "bad" tags, tags which don't make sense in general or in the specific context of the site. These include meta tags, tags that are redundant with the focus of ...