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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.
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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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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?
Are ...
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What should I do if a question is answered via email?
I recently asked System upgrade for a small home-server? , and someone answered the question via email:
Obviously the question should be answered as an answer on the question itself, not via email, ...
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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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