Do we need the old-school tag? Current stats: 24 question & 7 followers.
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1\$\begingroup\$ You should mark Josh's answer as accepted :) \$\endgroup\$Vaillancourt– Vaillancourt Mod2017-05-29 18:11:57 +00:00Commented May 29, 2017 at 18:11
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No, it's a meta-tag describing the domain of the question or an ideal goal of the project the question pertains to.
It should be burninated.
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2\$\begingroup\$ I've done this. \$\endgroup\$user1430– user14302017-05-19 18:28:07 +00:00Commented May 19, 2017 at 18:28
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I think we should keep it, but refine it's usage, then rename it.
Questions with the old-school mainly deal with
- Old hardware
- Reproduction of visual and audio effects older games had
- Historical questions about old games and how they were made.
I think we should keep the tag on the questions which relate to the graphics and audio styles as seen in the old-school games (just like we have a tag for pixel-art), and remove it from the other types of questions.
Then perhaps we should find a better name that reflects it, such as old-school-effect or old-school-style.
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2\$\begingroup\$ What is old hardware or older games? I would not define PlayStation, or some partially-early Windows games to be considered, for example. However, I know that others would. I feel this tag is too broad for this suggested used. Unless, of course, we can reach a concencus of period (say, "pre-2000"). But then, how do you handle the future? Does it stay at "pre-2000", or does it become "pre-2001" next year, and "pre-2002", the year after? \$\endgroup\$Gnemlock– Gnemlock2017-05-18 04:25:00 +00:00Commented May 18, 2017 at 4:25
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1\$\begingroup\$ @Gnemlock With the amount of questions that would be tagged as such, I don't think there would be much trouble managing it. And I would not use years, but maybe more which consoles would fit the description, so the description would stay constant, without needing to update it year after year. \$\endgroup\$2017-05-18 11:11:47 +00:00Commented May 18, 2017 at 11:11