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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Would a broad, canonical graphics cards question be a good idea?
We have a number of questions that ask for graphics cards for systems with varying specifications, power supplies, numbers of monitors, applications, etcetera. In the last month I seem to recall some ...
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Let's evaluate our progress!
Since Community site self-evaluations were shut down last year, there hasn't been any replacement for them, which leaves it down to us to evaluate our own progress.
Therefore, I propose that we do ...
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I once asked a question about printer
I provided specs. I said price must be at most $1k, and I want a refillable ink tank.
The question is closed.
And I have no idea why.
Some says it's not specific enough. I don't think there are ...
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I want to recommend 2 products: should I leave one or two answers?
(This question is basic but I couldn't find the answer skimming through meta.)
I read a question, and I want to recommend 2 products that seem to match the requirements: should I leave one or two ...
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Would this be on topic: "What practical advantages should I expect from ECC memory?"
I'm wondering whether this will be on topic. I read the Help page, and a few Meta pages, but I'm not sure.
I'm considering building a Xeon/ECC computer, because ECC sounds
attractive: no errors! ...
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This forum should be renamed
This site should be renamed "Computer Hardware Recommendations for Computer Techs That Require Validation"
And no, I am being very serious here and in no way should you take that as a ...
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"I recommend waiting..." recommendations - do we want these?
Did you guys hear?! nVidia has a new card! It's Pascal based! It'll be the greatest thing since this generation of nVidia cards! You should totally get it...but you can't yet. HA! So, sit back and ...
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on-topic meta tag?
Should we have a tag for requesting if something is [on-topic]?
There are multiple meta posts here asking if things are on-topic...
Are batteries on-topic?
Help! What's on-topic here?
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Are build requests on-topic?
Are questions like
"I want to build a gaming computer that does a b c and also does x y z for less than $___"?
on topic here? Or do they have to be recommendations about an already existing list ...
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Please review / discuss rejected suggested edit: USB to Ethernet adapter supporting multiple VLANs
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1946 . It was rejected with "This edit should be its own question.". Just curious if this was just a reflexive reject because it may ...
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Are batteries on-topic?
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2395/what-type-of-battery-should-i-get
is currently closed for being tech support. It has recently been edited to make it less tech support, but still ...
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Why was this edit rejected?
I fixed the typo in the title, and corrected the units. However, the edit was rejected.
The [standard] reason given doesn't really seem to apply:
This edit does not make the post even a little ...
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Moderator Review - How are we doing?
Since the start of my tenure here, I've been pretty proactive with closures and deletions, and most of my actions have generally been quite visible.
Now, while nobody's raised any serious complaints ...
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What is the final verdict on general advice questions, or how can we reach one?
So I had asked How do I identify a high quality HDMI -> VGA adapter? and it was closed, which is fine. I don't think it should be reopened, it is probably too broad. It's not even that great of a ...
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Was the NISC question correctly closed?
This question has been closed (by three users and a moderator) as 'too broad'. The reason given was this:
This question has been closed because it appears to be asking about a very conceptual ...
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Under what close vote questions with a scope too narrrow to help other readers?
Unlike many sites, we don’t have a close reason for such questions. While some will arg this isn’t ok by the design of the stack exchange network, many sites like security.se accept such questions in ...
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What should define a question as too broad, the number of requirments or the number of possible solutions?
A question can still have more than 10 requirements and too many or easy to find answers.
In the same time, a question with only 2 requirements might don’t have any existing device at all or at least ...
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Are DIY Recommendation answers appropriate?
I've seen a few answers that propose the OP gets their hands dirty and build a thing to solve their problem. I can't seem to find the others right now, but a recent answer is this:
What I'm ...
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Should we define "pre-purchase" vs "technical support"?
After a recent discussion about technical support questions, I went through some of our recent closures to gather more data. I return with a question for the community:
How do we tell the difference ...
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Let's explain what "technical support" means and how to properly fix the question to be on topic
I've proposed creating a new faq question covering what we consider "technical support". The idea is that we can use this as further guidance to users on what not to ask and how their technical ...
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Should we edit the sidebar text on the ask page?
As you may have seen, we have an issue with technical support questions.
One of the various solutions that has been discussed (proposed in chat and in a meta answer by Andy) is to edit the text in the ...
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What can we do about technical support questions?
Recently, I posted an answer here on meta. In it, I realise that we have a problem with technical support questions - essentially, going on half of our questions are closed, and going on half of those ...
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Should this site be called "Hardware Search"?
I'm just thinking out loud here.
Folks often ask me where they should ask a question about their stuff, and when they start focusing in on "Hardware Recommendations", the conversation ...
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Is there a decent, real, question we can use in the Tour?
On the tour page, our example question is currently about unicorns and daisies. Do we have any questions that are eligible for replacing this placeholder? If so, could we use that instead?
As an ...
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Laser cutters on topic?
I'm likely going to be in the market for a laser cutter with significant ability to be controlled from my computer (my computer capability will limit what I can do with it). It'll definitely have a ...
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Are "who" questions on-topic?
We've had a few questions that ask "who" about something, such as who manufactures X or who distributes Y product. This is the most recent, asking who makes smart TVs.
We've also had debates about ...
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Advertising Hardware Recommendations - Community Ads for 2016
It's 2016, and the new 300px-wide sidebar has just rolled out network wide. When that's complete, graduated sites around the network will start to run new community ad cycles.
To be ready for them, ...
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why not 'hardware'?
It seems that many new posters' questions are given the close for asking about hardware, giving the reason that the site is for 'hardware recommendations' only, and its scope doesn't extend to other ...
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Can I post the configuration that I'm thinking about buying?
I would like to receive feedback from the setup I'm thinking of buying (I chose each component myself) and hear from you guys if I'm buying something that might be incompatible, less ideal than some ...
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Questions about hardware/software for optical media extraction to broad?
It was suggested on SE meta to ask in HR meta if this is the place for this type of question.
I have several hundreds of optical media disks (mainly DVD-R & CD-R) that stores data, that needs to ...
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Are "case" questions off-topic?
The case tag has a strange wiki.
For questions about protective cases for hardware. May be off-topic.
Am I missing something? We have 10 questions tagged case and a lot of them are very high ...
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Question deletion policy?
How do we want to handle deletion of questions? We have a decent number of closed questions. Do some of these need to be removed completely?
Now that I've made it to 2K and several others are getting ...
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Are questions about acceptable hardware for given OS on topic
I am looking at replacing my home server and trying to understand how a specific CPU will perform in my environment with a specific OS. Are such questions on-topic?
For more clarity, my question is ...
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Do we want festive headwear?
Due to the support shown by the community, we are signed up to participate in Winter Bash.
If you have questions about the hats, please ask them here or on Meta Stack Exchange.
Original post:
Winter ...
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Recommendations for digital camera with very specific features on topic?
I am looking for a digital camera with very specific features. It would be hooked up to a computer on a regular basis to view/download images/videos.
Would this be on topic here?
I've read What is ...
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Concerned about answer quality recently
I am concerned about some of the answers we've received recently. We have a post on high quality answer guidelines and it doesn't seem the community is enforcing these. Alternatively, I'm rather ...
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Comment removal philosophy
I really hate to ask this, because it's about a single comment flag, but can we get some clarification on what the moderators consider good vs bad comments?
I am asking because a flag I had on the ...
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Clarification on a closed question
This question was closed as off-topic as "Technical Support." Could someone explain why?
The OP isn't asking for technical support on fixing hardware.
He is looking for hardware to use with a mobile ...
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Change name to Computer Hardware Recommendations
Current name Hardware Recommendations is deceptive I recommend to change name to Computer Hardware Recommendations.
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Moderator closing questions when he is unsure if they are on topic
I have asked this question today and moderator closed it because
I'm closing this question because we don't tend to deal with
recommendations of manufacturers or stores, only hardware. You can
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How do we encourage new users to stay on topic?
11 of the last 12 questions are on hold for being off topic.
What can we do to encourage users to stay on topic?
Is there any indication that the authors of these off topic questions are returning ...
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How can I make my question clearer?
A few days ago I asked this question.
It hasn't received much attention other than a few upvotes (with a single downvote the same time as the downvoted answer was upvoted), and the OP of the answer ...
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Differences from SuperUser
Unfortunately a lot of questions here are about Hardware support as well as shopping. These questions belong on SuperUser. How do we prevent users from asking questions? How can we as a whole improve ...
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Should we allow software alternatives to hardware requests to be "valid" answers?
Do we allow alternatives to the requested hardware to remain as valid answers? I believe we allow a wide variety of hardware to be an "answer". Not all of the hardware can fulfill all requirements, ...
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Delete is a last resort, not a first response
I'm new to this particular stackexchange, and admittedly my first answer was not quite in keeping with the general expectations. That's not my point.
The specific answer is here:
Low-power-draw HD ...
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"I've already bought this product, I want to do this, can I? If not what should I get instead?" questions
We've had a few questions that follow this format:
I've bought this PRODUCT to solve MY PROBLEM. Can this PRODUCT actually do this? If so, how? If not, what do you recommend?
The most recent ...
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What does the community need to do to help the moderators?
We're a week(ish) into having moderators. Let's get some feedback from the trenches...
In the past week, I've noticed that our moderators have been busy (Undo, Adam, ArtOfCode) with revisions around ...
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Could we have a 'no research effort' close/flag reason?
Some questions are decent but lack research effort:
The standard close reason for this type of question is that they are too broad:
Requirements are too broad — This is a community-run website to ...
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Do we still want general advice questions?
Prompted by this question.
A long time ago, we decided that "what should I consider"/general advice-type questions are allowed. We had at least one of these questions, which seemed to be pretty well-...
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Is asking for hardware recommendation to run a software too broad?
Where does this question stand in standards of quality for this community?
It has been put on hold as off topic for being too broad.
I differ from the opinion of moderator @ArtOfCode that it is too ...
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