When I tried to start chat-room with a user, I clicked start a new room with user and chat-room created under specific site : Unix & Linux. It may be because parent site of my profile is Unix & Linux. So, Why there is option for specific site not provided Unlike: when starting a new room? S...

I discovered last week that an elected moderator can modify a user's name. The user had a username that was clearly meant to insult one particular elected moderator. This was discussed in chat, and the moderator decided to make a minimal change to the user's username. While it was funny to see ...

I've recently been pondering a question of the reason behind a certain game mechanic used in many games. I was going to ask it on Arqade as the Ask > On-Topic section in the FAQ states: Game mechanics and terminology but it also mentions this in the 'prohibited questions' section: Spec...

Your question would be off-topic for falling into the realm of Game Development instead of Gaming. That is, your question is best answered by people who make games and not those who play games. You might be able to ask your question on our sister site, Game Development, but you'd want to take a l...

Was pointed here by Arqade's Meta On every first-person-shooter game I've played I've noticed that the 'automatically reload when empty' game mechanic is always used: I've always found it annoying, and so do many others: Any way to turn off automatic reloading? - GameFAQs Auto-reloading or ...

I recently saw an answer where the OP had edited it to be offensive, & I flagged it. The flag was declined as declined - Rolling back the edit was clearly the correct thing to do, not flag.: I was going to ask why it was declined (the content was offensive, it should've merited the [offensive]...

When flagging, there are two special case options: spam and offensive. What is spam, and when should I flag content as such? What is considered offensive content? How does the spam flag differ from the offensive flag? What is the effect of these special flags? Is there any way to remove these f...

For me, SO moderators and also some users are a little bit special. In this case I want to understand and in the same step get rid of my idea: I answered this post. It was upvoted and also accepted as answer. But days later a moderator deleted my answer. I don't know why. I have only a link to t...

Similar to this request but narrower, I'm suggesting we make a particular exception for downvoted accepted answers (those with score less than zero, or some other threshold like -3), so that they stay in the normal sort order and don't jump to the top. The accepted answer on this question on bh....

I found this name which I find very offensive, is it allowed? http://stackoverflow.com/users/1641587/fuck-stack-overflow