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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Design Ideas for Cooking Site
Hi all. I'm Jin and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflects its topic. However, ...
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Thanks to Aaronut for his years of service!
Aaronut was appointed as a pro tem moderator in 2010, then elected as a moderator in 2011 in our very first moderator election. Unfortunately he hasn't been active on the site in the last year, and it'...
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Please zap the meta-tags and dependent tags
I'm starting to see an alarming trend of what I feel is a major misuse of the tags.
To recap what I've said in the past, tags exist for two reasons:
To help other members determine whether or not a ...
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Should "I need a recipe for X?" questions be off-topic?
First discussed when the site was proposed: What's a good recipe for <insert some dish>?
I believe that allowing recipe exchanges in a professional Q&A site would be a huge mistake. The "low-...
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A day without food safety questions
I just noticed that today -- Wednesday October 24th, 2018 -- when I opened up "new questions", there were the usual 25 most recent questions on the page, and not one of them was about food safety or ...
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Is this site going to become Seasoned Advice? If so, when? [closed]
For those who aren't aware, the Web Apps beta graduated the other day and became Nothing to Install. Well, until it was reverted <24 hours later. There's lots of detail over on this Meta Web Apps ...
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Can I ask about how to use a specific ingredient? (AKA: Culinary Uses Guidelines)
I have an ingredient that I'm not sure what to do with, can I ask how to use it? Can I ask for recipes including it?
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Considering leaving Stack Exchange
I've been considering writing about this for a while, particularly as I haven't seen any discussion on this particular community about the larger goings-on at SE and Meta.
I had heard various ...
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A note from your moderator team
Some of you may have noticed that Jolenealaska currently doesn't have a diamond. Unfortunately, she has some stressful ongoing health issues that are consuming much of her time and energy, so she's ...
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Standardized Units?
I'm starting to see more and more answers with numbers in them - the most common being temperature, but the argument can be extended to volume and weight. I'm surprised it hasn't been asked before, ...
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Is it acceptable to glean questions from other cooking sites?
I've noticed that AtillaNYC has been copying questions from other cooking sites verbatim. Is this acceptable and/or encouraged?
Edit by Dinah:
My original question is above except that I did not ...
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Is this cooking-adjacent question on-topic?
Is Which killing method of the lobster would cause the least pain and distress? on topic?
It's clearly related to cooking, but:
the subject matter is far from normal cooking expertise (actually ...
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Is it safe to eat X that has been left at Y for Z amount of time?
Perhaps it's just me, but I've been seeing more and more questions recently that fit this template: "Is it safe to eat X that has been left at Y for Z amount of time?"
I think it's a perfectly good ...
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Please don't close questions from new members without explaining
Example:
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/113214/can-teflon-overheat-on-low
That question, from a brand-new member, got two close votes (because of the medical aspects, I'm pretty sure) ...
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Suggest a domain name. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...
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(Discontinued) Weekly Topic Contest! Ask great questions, enter to win a prize
This weekly topic contest has been discontinued.
Thank you all for your participation.
The basic idea of a Topic of the Week contest is to increase the content we have about hot and/or ...
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Why are people here messing with my posts?
When I came here, I posted some questions and answers in good faith. Now others are interacting with what I posted in negative ways - downvoting, editing things out, telling me something was off topic,...
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Seasoned Advice swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you have at least 950 reputation and are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
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Migrating questions to and from coffee.stackexchange.com
Corresponding post on coffee: https://coffee.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1169/230
https://coffee.stackexchange.com/ has now been in beta for nearly a year and while they're still pretty small, questions ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Seasoned Advice's fourth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
She'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank her for volunteering,...
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Are questions on alcohol beverages allowed?
Is it allowed to ask questions on:
wine (eg. does red wine suits to chicken?)
vodka (eg. how to make herbal liqueur from vodka?)
beer (eg. what kind of beer is best for Beer Can Chicken - I know its ...
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Are our mods taking part in the walkout?
Mods,
Just checking if y'all are doing the walkout thing over the AI policy. Not saying you should go either way, just wanting to know if you are.
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Changing the "How to ask" panel to head off recipe questions
Today I was talking to a journalist, and she told me that she was checking out Stack Overflow. But of course, she's not a programmer, so somehow she found her way to this site.
Naturally, she asked ...
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Would you be interested in a “Topic of the Week” contest?
We did something similar on Philosophy, where we designate one philosopher each week, and each person who asks a question relating to that philosopher is eligible to win a prize. It's gotten a ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Seasoned Advice's fifth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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A design update is coming!
You may have noticed some updates to the design lately, they are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework.
The updates allow us to:
Have sharper / more beautiful design on retina ...
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Staying on topic
I recently answered this question about crushing coffee beans. My final suggestion was to use a hammer, and I added a picture of MC Hammer for a little levity.
A user edited out both hammer pictures ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Should "general reference" questions be asked and answered here?
For some background on the broader topic, see: Are questions that are easily answered with Google appropriate for the site? This is essentially a smaller subset of that.
I want to state for the ...
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Has anybody else received abusive comments that were later edited or deleted?
On at least two occasions recently, a user (different users) left a totally inappropriate comment only to quickly edit it. In these particular cases the intended recipient was notified and saw the ...
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Did you know that Stack Exchange has a blogging platform?
That is my way of circuitously floating the idea of a cooking blog!
Here is Blog Overflow.
Here are a couple of other .SE's blogs. Some are more successful than others!
Sci-Fi
English
Gaming
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How did I reach nearly a million people?
I'm just curious as to how exactly I have reached 823K people? That seems an incredible amount for only 35 answers and 31 question.
Any further details on how the people reached tab is calculated ...
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What types of sourcing questions should be allowed? (Revisit: March 2013 -- Please read again)
I have edited this question to bring it to the top of the meta-SA list, because it never seems to have come to consensus, and is relevant again (March 2013).
We have had two sourcing questions lately:...
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Is the site over moderated (closing)?
I posed a question about the Soufflé technique and flagged it as such. This was my first question on cooking.stackexchange and the response (it was closed) is very de-motivating.
The comment I got was ...
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Thanks - A Former Moderator
As some of you have probably noticed, I have been inactive here for a while. A new job plus a wonderful son have taken up more of my time, and I haven't had the bandwidth to keep up my participation ...
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Should "what can I add to X" questions be closed by default?
We've had a few of these questions recently which are now closed. The latest one, which is actually one of our oldest questions but just resurfaced, was about mayonnaise, and - this is no surprise to ...
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Policy on ChatGPT generated posts
A new Internet phenomenon has reached our own corner of the Stack Exchange network. Today, we had for the first time an answer which we suspect has been generated by ChatGPT.
The network has been ...
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Are questions that are easily answered with Google appropriate for the site?
I just answered the question "Buttermilk Substitute?". Typing the question in to Google turned up pages and pages of detailed discussion about what to substitute for buttermilk. Do these "easy" ...
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Are food safety questions a liability?
There's been a number of questions of the "is this safe to eat?" variety.
I admit, I replied to the one on cheese, but I'm starting to think that these may have liability issues -- if someone says it'...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Discussion: Should "Plant identification" questions be acceptable here?
Very infrequently we get requests from users to identify whether a plant is a specific edible plant. Most recently, this question:
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63379/iis-this-mint-...
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What are restaurant-mimicry questions?
It can seem that "restaurant mimicry" questions are requests for recipes. What is the difference, and how can we write restaurant mimicry questions which don't get closed?
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Switching to 3-vote close/reopen
I'd like us to switch to three (instead of five) votes to close/reopen questions. This should allow for easier action by non-moderators; reaching five votes can be a tall order, especially in the ...
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What drives many users to be overly concerned about safety?
I am surprised by the number and contents of question concerning food safety. Please do not take this as an assertion about non existence of microbic contamination or to ridiculize anything / anyone. ...
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Are questions about raw food on-topic?
Are questions about raw food on-topic?
As based on the domain prefix (cooking), the site looks like it's only about the cooking.
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Where do we draw the line on culinary uses questions?
Long ago, we decided that recipe requests were considered off topic as they are not objective, do not promote "expert" answers, and are highly susceptible to "me too" answers. However, there is a ...
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Discouraging the proliferation of bad tags: Proposal
As some of you may have noticed, we've got some truly awful tags littering the parent site. I'm not talking about the little one-off tags where somebody pastes their question title into the tag box, ...
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Cooking Birthday Celebration
Did you know Seasoned Advice's anniversary of its graduation is coming up on 14 October? Congratulations!
How about a fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of great Q&A, we'd like ...
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Proposal for Awesome Answers Contest
Update: Thanks for your input. I've just announced the contest!
From the feedback I got when announcing the discontinuation of the weekly topic challenge, as well as some more casual conversations I'...
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What should our FAQ contain?
Since this is one of the 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta...
What should go in our FAQ?
Most of the FAQ is boilerplate, but we need to determine the on-topic and off-topic subjects that go ...