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Highlighting the games we play with screenshots on Codidact
Something that could give us a bit of life and community beyond information-based content, would be a way for us to share experiences and highlights from our own game-playing experiences. Arqade SE has a "screenshot of the week", where weekly, on the meta site, they post a question asking for answers which include a screenshot taken by the poster themself. I want us to do something similar here. If we duplicate the effort, because we're a smaller community, I believe these should be monthly, like the contests on Photography (now inactive), unless we end up receiving a lot of screenshots. Eventually, the top voted answer's screenshot gets put in the sidebar.
We can also extend on this idea, and instead of only displaying the top voted screenshot, showcase the top three, or a gallery of every positively-voted screenshot. Or alternatively, we drop the entire display in the sidebar, and keep it limited to the category or Q/A question where the posting resides.
We'll need a set of basic rules for this. These two seem like obvious ones to me:
- A screenshot can ever only be submitted once
- The screenshot must have been captured by the poster themselves, or rendered specifically for them; thus using an existing screenshot from the Internet is forbidden.
- Include the name of the game as an inline tag.
Are there any changes or additions to the rule set, or setup, that we should make? Or perhaps any objections to the concept as a whole?
How do we handle nudity, gore, drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, commonly illegal ones) etc? Do we ban the posting of screenshots that include this content? I am worried that especially for gore, we're going to exclude many good candidates if it's outright banned. If still permitted, would we prefer that if there's a heavy presence of this content, that the screenshot is hidden behind a spoiler? If we end up displaying screenshots in the sidebar, do we cut these entirely?
Personally, I'm a very active (unhealthily active) player, so I can probably share a hundred screenshots per week! Not that I think people would want that much from me...
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One screenshot per post.
If someone posts for example a bunch of screenshots in different angles of the same object, then that gives them an unfair advantage in the friendly little competition.
Maybe also a rule of one submission per game for one specific user? Or otherwise someone might decide to post a whole lot of stuff from the same game, which might get old quickly. I see no reason why one user can't post multiple submissions from different games though.
How do we handle nudity, gore, drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, commonly illegal ones) etc? Do we ban the posting of screenshots that include this content?
It would have to be based on the Code of Conduct - be nice, be respectful. Nudity and gore in particular might upset a lot of users. Pictures of someone smoking a cigarette, less so.
Common sense will usually get us very far - if it is for example something considered too provocative to show in a public commercial ad, then it is probably not suitable for Codidact either. I don't think Arcade SE had any big problems with such pictures?
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