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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How can we improve the traffic to the site?
As the community is growing really fast, it's time we do some growth hacking for improving the number of visits(traffic) and dedicated users on the site. So, any views on how to go about it?
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Should questions about upcoming hardware be accepted?
If I were to ask about hardware that is going to come out, such as: "Is the new Pascal GPU architecture worth waiting for, based on rumors and details nVidia has released? Or should I just buy a GTX ...
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Are questions asking how well a piece of hardware does X accepted?
Triggered by How many players would this VPS be able to take?: Are questions that essentially ask this accepted?
I am looking at x hardware ([specs]), and I'd like to know how well it does ([...
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Help! What's on-topic here?
When people arrive at our site, they'll be directed to /help/on-topic for guidance about what's on-topic here. Said page currently contains basically nothing useful; I can tell you that without even ...
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If a question contains two questions, is it OK to leave an answer that only responds to one?
Example:
I'm searching for a good monitor for my PC. I currently own a 21,5"
ASUS monitor, which is fine; I'm planning on using the one I currently
own as a second monitor and get a new one as ...
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Should we delete things that don't match our criteria?
It was proposed, then it was implemented for questions and answers. We have quality guidelines for questions and answers; now, the question is how we enforce them.
Now that this site has some ...
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Introducing your pro-tem moderators
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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What should we do with questions asking for hardware that doesn't exist?
What should we do with questions where there can't be such a hardware, typically because the problem is at the software level?
In my opinion, we should allow an "answer" which explains why there can'...
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How do we handle obsolete hardware recommendations?
I didn't think we'd end up with this question for a while, but it seems we have a time traveller. One of the goals of Stack Exchange is to create content that is useful to future users.
there's a ...
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Why not replace the [mp3-player] tag with, for example, [audio-player]?
Most of the devices that get called "mp3 players" in reality do play several audio formats.
Also, MP3 is nowadays the most ineffective if compared to popular alternatives (Vorbis, Opus, AAC) due to ...
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Is this question on-topic?
This question, Parts for a gaming PC from 2005, is rather unique on HR. It asks about common hardware from 2005. I think it is an interesting question, but I'm not sure if it is on-topic. It doesn't ...
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Should we have a 'blatantly off-topic' custom close reason?
We got a custom close reason for unclear questions - yay!
However, when we got this it deactivated the 'standard' blatantly off-topic reason, thereby making us have to use custom comments for ...
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Re-write dumbphone question, or ask new question?
(Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I believe it is? Please feel free to tell me otherwise, and I can move/remove this question if necessary. Also, please feel free to add/remove tags - I ...
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How should disclosure work if we're answering based on hardware for review?
Well, while I've not been that lucky yet, I'd be pretty happy to try out hardware and review it in various places, primarily my blog. I do that already with hardware I buy. There's two possible ...
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Should we have a close reason for technical support questions?
We've gotten several questions that have been technical support type questions:
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/695/cant-be-established-connection-with-internet-whats-up
https://...
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Are "should I buy X for $Y" questions on-topic?
A few years ago, I had an opportunity to buy a laptop. I managed to sneak it in to Ask Different as a different question, but the answer to that question would necessarily answer my real question: "Is ...
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How often should the [pc] tag be used?
Lately, I've been noticing a lot of questions that use the pc tag along with another relevant tag. Although PC is technically related to a very large amount of hardware, does it really need to be used ...
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Questions about cloud virtual machines allowed?
Will questions asking about using certain virtual machines for a particular use case be allowed?
Like this:
"I'm implementing a cache with X key and Y value, where Y will never exceed 1kb, and ...
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Proposal: Require computer specs to be posted in the question instead of behind a link
I'd like to propose a quality guideline to help prevent confusion in the future.
Proposal
Users posting information about their computer need to have the components listed in the question itself not ...
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Should this site have region tags to help region specific reccomendations
Following this comment and related question.
Since a lot of recommendation questions are region specific , both in terms of suppliers availability, as well as price and currency , should some kind ...
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Questions about PC-building feedback
This question asks for general feedback of a build and (possibly, if it comes to it) recommendations for computer hardware.
The question itself could be considered on-topic since it leads to ...
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How to deal with frequently fluctuating product prices?
In this answer, I linked to a product on Amazon to show that its price meets the question requirement. Two days later, the price dropped around 15USD. Luckily, in this case, it didn't contradict the ...
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What to do regarding market / region specific hardware ( Q & A )?
I am asking this question, because I feel that this is somewhat of an inherited problem in hardware recs.
Many questions have an answer , that might be more or less correct depending on the specific ...
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Do we want to make "FAQ threads"?
Over the time we will have more and more questions like "What is the best choice in price range x to y" etc...
I am thinking of making this mainly for PC sets/laptops. Do we want to create a big ...
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What is Hardware?
Not hardware, but Hardware.
We've half-defined our scope, thanks to Robert. The other half of defining our scope is an issue that's been sitting around since Day 1, and one that I've seen plenty of ...
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What to do with the [durability] tag?
Currently, the durability tag has 3 questions and on JohnB's answer, it is to be merged or renamed to durable. Personally, I don't like either of these tags. Before I take action against them, I ...
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Merge [monitor] into [display]
I have been looking at tags to clean up, and I came across the tags displays (6 questions) and monitors (8 questions). Most of the questions are asking for the same hardware. One monitor question is ...
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Are questions asking about computer circuits allowed?
This question just came up. It asks for a recommendation of a resistor – a component found on a circuit board. This topic has been very briefly mentioned in an answer in an earlier thread, but I ...
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How do we deal with the product photos?
As all we know, copyrights may vary a lot. Do we want to make a general thread and collect permissions from various companies to show their photos? I do not mean individual images, only the whole ...
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Merge [headset] into [headphone]
I've retracted this request. enderland has explained the difference between the two pieces of hardware in his answer and why they shouldn't be merged. Now that I know the difference, I agree with his ...
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How do we feel about self-answering?
As far as I know, we haven't had this happen yet, but what if? Would it be acceptable?
I ask this because to me there is a grey area in the posting guidelines when it comes to something like this. If ...
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Tagging: Wi-Fi or WiFi?
We currently have a wi-fi tag. This seems unnatural to me - I've always written WiFi. There's precedent for wifi - Super User has wifi-configuration and wifi-driver, Server Fault uses wifi, and Apple ...
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How to avoid decreasing user activity?
At this moment we have 59 visits/day (one of the lowest rates since the start of the private beta).
When Community Promotion Ads can be launched?
How to encourage users to get involved?
Should we ...
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Communication with other sites about what is on topic
We've started to receive traffic from other sites (Super User in particular).
No, on superuser they said I had to ask it here. So I did that. And that is excactly what I want to know if I shoud ...
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Updates to Tour - Community Description Blurb
On the tour page there is a brief description of the community that current reads:
Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people seeking specific hardware ...
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Updates to Tour - What to Ask/Not ask?
On our tour page we currently have the following:
Ask about...
Specific issues with hardware recommendations
Real problems or questions that you’ve encountered
Don't ask about...
Anything not ...
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Intel "Inside everywhere"
Unusual question came up on our website:
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/498/tempest-proof-pc-notebook
What do you think about questions like this? Can it be taken seriously?
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Community Promotion Ads - Let's advertise this site!
There are ads that have already reached the 6-vote threshold and have been submitted to other sites. The following are the relevant ads that have been submitted:
Arqade
Game Dev
Graphic Design
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Which other Stack Exchange sites have a userbase that would be interested in our site?
Now that we've reached Public Beta, part of our job is getting the word about Hardware Recommendations out. One way to do that is via Community Ads. These ads are voted upon by the Stack Exchange ...
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We're "graduated" to public beta!
If you open the site incognito mode it shows up now :)
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions
We can celebrate with whatever!
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Should location be required or recommended in questions?
I've seen this topic come up a few times here and there over the past week or two, but I guess no one asked yet.
Location can sometimes make a big difference in what hardware is available in a ...
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Merge [notebook] into [laptop]
I propose merging notebook into laptop and making an appropriate synonym.
There are currently 3 notebook questions and 5 laptop questions. All are referring to the same type of hardware.
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What is required for a question to be 'high quality'?
This is the question version of What is required for an answer to be 'high quality'?
(It is modeled off of What is required for a question to contain "enough information"? from Software ...
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How should we deal with questions asking about what hardware to use for something?
This question was just asked. The OP is asking about how to achieve something and needs a recommendation of what hardware to use in the first place rather than a recommendation of a certain product.
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How to deal with "yes" or "no" questions?
I stumbled upon this: 250 GB SSD for programming cheaper than ~£100?
The question really narrows to "should I buy this or this", in which the answer is really a "yes" or a "no". That makes for a ...
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Should questions like this be closed?
Recently, we had this question about alternatives to the Raspberry Pi. It's answerable by a quick Google search, and by the requirements for questions that Robert Cartaino defined, is not specific ...
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Should we have a custom 'too broad' off-topic reason?
In Robert Cartaino's answer here, he mentions this text:
Closed as a broad recommendation or poll
"Hardware Recommendations" is a community-run website to help participants complete an ...
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Should we group technical terms (like 1080p) into more generic tags (like HDVideo)?
We have a 1080p tag currently, which means that in theory we probably need 480i, 480p, 720i, 720p, 1080i, 4k etc.
That seems a little too specific to me for this type of site, and the list will only ...
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What should our logo and site design look like? [closed]
As all we know many beta sites look the same and it would be nice to be distinguished somehow.
Jeff Atwood wrote a blog post about it:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-residence-...
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How to handle questions with too few requirements?
After seeing a few questions listing very few requirements, I realize we never actually discussed what to do if there is a low-quality question in terms of soliciting an overly-broad product ...
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