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Is this a game recommendation question?

BGG is a site for discussion and opinions. Good question 1: What is a "5-player" game? …
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4 votes

Answers That Add Virtually Nothing To Previous Answers?

In my experience on StackOverflow, if two answers are equivalent preference is usually shown (in voting and in which one is accepted) for the earlier answer--and we, as voting and commenting members o …
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What are the steps in eliminating recommendation questions?

In the immediate aftermath to this discussion, there seems to be somewhat of a consensus to ban game recommendation questions. An enthusiastic new moderator (congratulations, btw!) …
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5 votes
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Penny Arcade tag rename?

We've had two questions about Penny Arcade the Game: Gamers vs. Evil (1) (2), and both have caused confusion with Penny Arcade: The Card Game for which we've received no questions. I set about to rena …
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4 votes

Let's clean up these very-specific Go tags

I think the edits you made for handicap are very good. Other tags (e.g. invasion, extension, 9x9) are, I think, tags that should be kept, but perhaps with a "go-" prefix added on. There are also Japan …
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Are questions about flavor acceptable?

I have no objection to questions about flavor as long as they meet the other criteria of a good question. From What Type of Questions Should I Avoid Asking You should only ask practical, answerabl …
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4 votes
1 answer
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What to do when a new user leaves a comment as an answer?

A new user apparently wanted to comment on an answer (link), but didn't have enough rep so just submitted it as another answer. I'd like give the user a warmer welcome than flagging the non-answer for …
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3 votes
1 answer
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Should the tags 'tools' and 'game-accessories' be synonyms?

I think they should (or one should be eliminated), but I don't have enough rep yet to make that happen. tools game-accessories
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5 votes
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Regarding go tags, should [fuseki] be a synonym for [openings]

Some Japanese Go terms, such as joseki, don't have an English equivalent. Fuseki, on the other hand, is commonly translated just as "opening". We have a widely used openings tag with a nice, general t …
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3 votes
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Merge teaching and learning?

They've both been nominated for deletion in this question. However, I think this main site question may have been created to try to demonstrate teaching's worth, so there might not yet be consensus on …
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Vote Early, Vote Often

And especially look for new users' questions/answers to vote up. They're much more likely to stick around if they get some nice fast positive reinforcement. One easy way to do this is to use https:// …
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3 votes

Meta tags 'R Us!

learning looks like a candidate as well.
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4 votes

Meta tags 'R Us!

Another nominee: version Used 4 times, never as the only tag.
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3 votes

Meta tags 'R Us!

comparison is sometimes used when people ask the difference between two games or a game and expansion.
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Meta tags 'R Us!

This one I'm unsure of: teaching. My gut reaction for learning is that it's a meta-tag and should be removed. Then teaching came up and I like it, which is terribly inconsistent. Maybe they're both ok …
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