Questions tagged [meta]
There's no Meta Meta Role-playing Games, so this tag is for discussing Meta Role-playing Games itself.
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I struggled to find a piece of documentation on the site; should I open a question that directs people to it and answer it?
I just had the experience of looking for the "How do I ask a good question?" help page and struggling to find it. The very first thing I did to try to find it was type the page's exact title ...
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Checking in: do we need any updates to our Citation Expectations Q&A?
This meta is a check-in on: What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange? I created this meta a few years ago so people could point to it while leaving a comment addressing an ...
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What is the time/protocol for enacting a meta decision?
When putting answer here, often you get responses, sometimes not or only after a longer time frame. In general there is a lot less traffic on meta than on the main site, and responses can be slow in ...
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Does the usage guidance for the [closed-questions] tag on this Meta need to be updated?
The usage guidance for closed-questions says: This tag is for posts looking to raise meta discussions about specific closed questions, as well as for questions about the concept of a closed question ...
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Why is there an RPG.SE Meta question listed as an upcoming event?
On the right hand column of RPG.SE, there's a link to a meta question (Revisit III: Don’t Guess the System policy) with an "Upcoming events" header rather than the expected "Featured on ...
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How shall we frame our upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy?
As a community, we should discuss how to frame the upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy. We need a transparent and fair vote, so we ought to establish voting rules that prevent ...
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We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas
Let me start by trying to give a definition. We’re here talking about meta discussions which strongly guide or dictate behaviour, and in particular where there are opposing, incompatible options and – ...
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What's next for the issues raised in the community check in?
As I am writing this, it has been 45 days since the 2021 Community Check-in. Many of the answers identify observed site trends, with scores indicating community agreement with those observations. So ...
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Should we lock community check-in posts on Meta once we open a new one?
We have community check-ins on Meta that represent a snapshot of the time they describe. These snapshots are useful when one contextualises what the metacommunity perceives as pressing incidents, ...
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What is the process for establishing and maintaining policies?
The core question I'm looking to get an answer for is "What is a policy and how does it function?". Specifically, how does something become policy, and who is responsible for maintaining or ...
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Would it be helpful to have a Question Workshop thread?
This idea is somewhat borrowed from puzzling.se's Riddle Sandbox and math.se's Draft Sandbox threads. Would it be helpful or beneficial to have a thread on meta for posting question drafts as answers ...
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How are the meta FAQ supposed to be used?
Are they rules, recommendations, convenient places to hold discussions? How are they to be used? What expectations are there when you link someone to a meta thread? Are meta top answers a suggestion ...
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Where's the FAQ? I can't seem to find it
I've been looking for a while and I can't find the FAQ, would someone be kind enough to link it to me?
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Proposal to reboot our forum list
Our list of forums gets used in comments quite frequently, including by yours truly --- however, while I like describing it as "our curated list of forums", many of the answers there haven't been ...
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What is the appropriate way to bring community attention to unacted-on meta consensus?
Just for example, these questions: Do we need a [disadvantage] tag? Non-duplicate questions, with opposite correct answers, merged (Disclaimer: one was my meta question, and the other one is about my ...
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