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I posted a questionquestion about how to investigate a crash in a Windows application:

Found and fix a CTD in Windows 11

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itIt was rejected since the application was a game. I kindly ask you some clarifications:

  1. gaming questions are off-topic, but there are 740 questions with the gaming tag, where its description is "For questions related to specialized software and hardware configurations designed for playing games.". Why only mine is off-topic?

  2. the fact that the application I'm talking about was a game is not relevant for the question itself. I asked how to investigate about a crash, which tools I can use to understand why an(y) application crashes. I showed my effort, my researches, my trials. It was a technical question, not how to complete a game level.

Would you clarify me why such a question is not accepted here, please? And, last but not least, I carefully read the FAQ, but I didn't find that I cannot merely talk about an application that is a game. I just cannot ask about a "videogame", but again my question was not about it.

I posted a question about how to investigate a crash in a Windows application:

Found and fix a CTD in Windows 11

[deleted now]

it was rejected since the application was a game. I kindly ask you some clarifications:

  1. gaming questions are off-topic, but there are 740 questions with the gaming tag, where its description is "For questions related to specialized software and hardware configurations designed for playing games.". Why only mine is off-topic?

  2. the fact that the application I'm talking about was a game is not relevant for the question itself. I asked how to investigate about a crash, which tools I can use to understand why an(y) application crashes. I showed my effort, my researches, my trials. It was a technical question, not how to complete a game level.

Would you clarify me why such a question is not accepted here, please? And, last but not least, I carefully read the FAQ, but I didn't find that I cannot merely talk about an application that is a game. I just cannot ask about a "videogame", but again my question was not about it.

I posted a question about how to investigate a crash in a Windows application.

It was rejected since the application was a game. I kindly ask you some clarifications:

  1. gaming questions are off-topic, but there are 740 questions with the gaming tag, where its description is "For questions related to specialized software and hardware configurations designed for playing games.". Why only mine is off-topic?

  2. the fact that the application I'm talking about was a game is not relevant for the question itself. I asked how to investigate about a crash, which tools I can use to understand why an(y) application crashes. I showed my effort, my researches, my trials. It was a technical question, not how to complete a game level.

Would you clarify me why such a question is not accepted here, please? And, last but not least, I carefully read the FAQ, but I didn't find that I cannot merely talk about an application that is a game. I just cannot ask about a "videogame", but again my question was not about it.

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Are questions marginally related to games off-topic in any case?

I posted a question about how to investigate a crash in a Windows application:

Found and fix a CTD in Windows 11

[deleted now]

it was rejected since the application was a game. I kindly ask you some clarifications:

  1. gaming questions are off-topic, but there are 740 questions with the gaming tag, where its description is "For questions related to specialized software and hardware configurations designed for playing games.". Why only mine is off-topic?

  2. the fact that the application I'm talking about was a game is not relevant for the question itself. I asked how to investigate about a crash, which tools I can use to understand why an(y) application crashes. I showed my effort, my researches, my trials. It was a technical question, not how to complete a game level.

Would you clarify me why such a question is not accepted here, please? And, last but not least, I carefully read the FAQ, but I didn't find that I cannot merely talk about an application that is a game. I just cannot ask about a "videogame", but again my question was not about it.