Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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11 questions with no answers
The title says it all. All questions should have at least one answer IMO.
What to do with unanswered questions?
Should they be brought back to the top of the list to get more attention? Bounties?
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Distilling questions
It was discussed so many times, like here, but it seems the answer is always that it was decided like that in the begining.
Still, can it be changed today, to accept questions like this one?
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Homebrewing's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Homebrewing Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 29 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Why is it so common to find answers with more upvotes than questions?
I was reading through some interesting questions this weekend and realized that there are a number of questions with less up votes than the answer.
I'm intrigued about this "phenomenon". If a question ...
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Are people aware there is a chat room?
I am feeling slightly stupid at the moment I have been on StackExchange for many years now and I have only just stumbled upon the chatrooms section.
It appears we have a chat room that no-one knows ...
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Is this question about sweet liqueur off-topic?
This question seems right on the cusp of being on-topic to me. On one hand, it doesn't really have anything to do with fermentation or homebrewing. However, this process more or less like making a ...
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Comments posted as answers
This happens so often, because new users don't have enough reputation to post comments. To deal with this, flags are raised and mods will move the answer to a comment. Wouldn't it be more efficient ...
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Is cheesemaking ontopic?
I am a homebrewer; I often make wine and I'll be asking more questions about wine in the future. Recently I took up cheesemaking. Is that also on topic here?
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Flagging low quality answer
I was reviewing the first post of Hop Hunter on this question : "FV" abbreviation in BrewDog recipe
I find it doesn't answer the question, but I hesitate to flag it.
Answers that are not ...
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Tags: Mash and Mashing
Mashing seems to be a duplicate/sub-set of Mash.
I suggest removal of 'mashing' and to re-tag the questions 'mash' before removal.
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What to do about questions that seem to be promoting products
In this question, I made a comment that I thought that the number of references to a product were great enough for me to down-vote the question. The question title had the product name, then there ...
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Clarity and clarification tags
The clarity and clarification tags seem to really be about the same thing. The cloudy tag also seems a bit redundant and appears with each of these tags.
Should tag synonyms be created for these?
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Driving Traffic to this Site
I really like this site. I am a web developer and I have found a TON of helpful resources on SO. I know that home brewers are a much smaller market than programmers, but there are plenty of great ...
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Commentary as answers
For this 4 year old question that bubbled up recently...
Look at the answer from barking Pete. Is this an acceptable answer in the SE format. I flagged it during review, but I'll stop doing so if ...
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Why retag from infection to contamination?
Retagged question are about (possible) infections. If these tags are really the same, shouldn't they be made synonyms? If they are not, why was Consequences of infection in a beer? edited?
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Please welcome your new moderator!
I'm Pops, a Community Manager at Stack Exchange. Today, I'm sad to announce that one of your longtime moderators has left the team, but happy to announce a great replacement:
It's been a while since ...
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Is home distillation of beer or wine on-topic?
Are questions about home distillation of home brewed beer and/or wine to be considered as on-topic?
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Recipe review questions?
Are recipe review questions allowed? If someone wants to ask something like "I made this recipe, I expect effects to be like that, are there any mistakes?", would this be on-topic?
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Proper use of 'alcohol', 'alcohol-content', and 'abv' tags
I've noticed that the alcohol, alcohol-content, and abv tags are all used on a similar range of questions.
The alcohol-content and abv tags seem to be very related and basically synonyms in many, if ...
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Advice Questions and Answers
I'm reviving this topic as it's one I'm having a hard time with. It seems like our core interest encourages experimentation and exploration, which doesn't feel 100% compatible with the StackExchange ...
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Are questions that do not involve any brewing on topic here?
Calculating alcohol percentage after diluting with a sugar syrup - OP is using ready-made, distilled alcohol. He isn't actually brewing anything, just mixing. Should it be considered on or off topic?
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Adding an answer to a question that already has an accepted
I sometimes find that a better answer can be provided to a question answered a few years earlier. But the user who posted the question is probably long gone.
Is there a point in adding an answer ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Are potentially wiki-type questions accepted yet?
As a relative beginning, I was going to attempt a hop taste test in order to get a better handle on the different hop types. I could ask for some 6-8 recommendations to use for such a test. However it ...
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Are we still building the site?
In the early days, a stackexchange site often wants questions that are easy to answer with good answers, to as to build the site and attract people. considering the homebrew site is still in beta and ...
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Don't should we avoid internet acronyms/abbreviations/slang words?
I'm not a native english speaker, and frequently on this lovely and very good/useful site I see acronyms on questions, answers and comments. Everytime it happens I have to google the thing to ...
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Let's get critical: Sep 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Can we decide which legal questions are on topic?
Before marking as a dupe of this, my questions is more of a request for consistency.
This comment made me look up other questions about the legality of selling homebrew. It seems sometimes they get ...
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How to go about creating a Q&A that becomes the basis of a beginnners brewing guide?
So after posting this question I was wondering about how useful it would be if there was a similar type of page that was basically a guide written on this forum for people like myself. Considering how ...
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Upvoting questions
I've just seen a string of answered questions, with several answers per question and often multiple upvotes on some answers, yet the question remained at 0 votes.
If a question is good enough to be ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Beer.StackExchange
Beer.StackExchange.com recently went into public beta. It's chugging along, but there's some discussion on whether homebrew and beer really need separate boards:
https://alcohol.meta.stackexchange....
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Tags: Dry-Hop & Dry-Hopping
Suggested removal, we seem to have duplicate tags for "Dry-Hop" & "Dry-Hopping".
Side note we seem to have duplicate tags in the Meta "tags" and "tagging"
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Youtube community
The Brewing youtube community seems very strong. Lots of people asking and answering questions on in the comments sections but these get lost with time as you can't search comments for Q&A very ...
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What does it take for a question to appear on the front page
I just asked a question and then refreshed the site by clicking on the name in the upper left. My question didn't show up at the top? It was there when I clicked the 'Questions' link, but not on the ...
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Let's get critical: Dec 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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What do you think about launching a separate site for beer appreciation?
There's a newer proposal gaining some amount of traction on our Area 51 site:
Beer - Proposed Q&A site for beer aficionados and collectors
The focus is significantly different from this one, ...
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Should this question on homebrewing in a country where alcohol is prohibited be opened?
I recently closed this question about taking steps to brew beer in a country that has prohibited it.
But I can imagine some potential answers that may be of genuine help, such as alcohol-free brewing,...
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Let's get critical: Sep 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Q&A session with Denny Conn
The Homebrew SE site is very fortunate to have Denny Conn as a moderator and regular contributor, answering questions and providing guidance on this site on a daily basis. With hundreds of batches of ...
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Let's get critical: Jun 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Homebrewing Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Is there a easy way to get commonly used symbols without leaving the site?
When writing a question or answer there are some commonly used symbols or typesetting styles that are missing. The two that come to mind are the degree symbol (°) for temperatures and refractometer ...
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Answer rate concern
I'm fairly new to this site but it seems to me there are a plethora of questions lacking an accepted answer that have one or more good answers available.
Should we perhaps pull together to remedy ...
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Is setting a goal of 15 questions per day pertinent for homebrew?
I understand that the metric around questions asked per day is a good identifier of the engagement of the community (particularly new members) but 15 per day feels like an arbitrary number. Shouldn't ...
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broaden definition to include pros and micros
In discussion about merging some other Alcohol related sites it was suggested that rather that trying to merge in Home brewing (which is undoubtedly struggling to get it's questions per day up), ...
