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Coffee'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 volunteering, ...

The 2021 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, ...

Summary: Coffee Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on March 15 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

Coffee Stack Exchange last had moderators appointed over 5 years ago. After discussing it with the current moderator team, we're looking at scheduling an election to start somewhere in October 2020. ...

I have come across a question which is specific to Sydney. I have also answered another city-specific question. Are those kinds of questions on-topic for coffee.SE? I think city-specific questions may ...

Seasoned Advice has excluded recipe requests for various reasons. One of the most important one being that asking for recipes is fundamentally opinion-based and therefore not a good fit for the site ...

The convention on StackExchange is that signatures in Q & A aren't required, or desired: We don't want to clutter up question pages with a lot of redundant signature blocks and taglines and so ...

Us coffee nerds are forever searching for the best grinder / espresso machine / French press / other gadget for our passion. So asking for recommendations is for many users a logical approach. We don’...

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, ...

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, in ...

Today, I realized that a "recommendation" tag exists. As the tag itself suggests "opinion-based question", should we discourage its use?

We are in extreme inactivity. Reviews rarely pop up and we aren't doing anything really, anxious to get something done on this site. Sure, (all of the following stats are from Area 51), we're good on ...

I could not found any chat room for this community. If this community don't yet have chat room, then one chat room should be created.

I have noticed in particular that Coffee SE hasn't been getting much traffic than it should be getting. Has any of the admins of Coffee SE tried looking into making some ads to post on other more ...

I'm beginning to do some post reviewing in my spare time and have run into quite a few circumstances where I just hit the Skip button because I'm not sure that my options fit the circumstances. Sweet ...

This has partially been covered here, but was more broad than specifically iced coffee Are questions about the beverage iced coffee here appropriate? Such as differences in bean types, preparation ...

Some baristas have an interesting story to share and there are various things that even regular customers do wrong and it drives them nuts. I don't exactly remember, but once there was a barista who ...

I have a high end but not commercial latte machine It has broken three time and twice I was able to fix it and third I had to pay. It is broken again but since it is getting old I am reluctant ...

I recently answered a question about fitting a specific steam tip on to the Breville Dual Boiler. The user linked the steam tip in question which described the threading to be 1/8" female British ...

I think the question is straightforward. Are they synonyms or do are there nuances? I think they could be declared as synonyms.

To steal mercilessly from last year's post: For those who are new to the Stack Exchange network, Winter Bash is an annual light-hearted event where users can earn virtual hats by doing certain things ...

What alcohol products go well with a particular type of coffee? I enjoy the odd Irish Coffee occasionally. What alcohol products go well with a particular type of coffee? Desiring to expand my ...

I'm thinking on these two tags, equipment and coffee-machines for a while. Are these two the same thing? If not, what's the difference? coffee-machines: This sounds like an automated machine used to ...

The question What factors contribute to differences between coffee beans? asks the questions: What are the different types of coffee beans, and what are there characteristics? What other factors ...

If an answer or a question from a specific user continuously mentions a specific website or a product (line) as well as functions as a question or an answer, should we consider these series of posts ...

Which books do you recommend to read for people who are interested in coffee? This question asks for literature about coffee - is that still within our scope? My gut feeling would be no, yet our ...

I've "joined" the Coffee site. If I'm on another StackExchange site, I can click on the dropdown on the upper left corner and there's a list very close to the top of "Your Communities" that shows all ...

I was searching on a google and found out that there is one site which contains all our questions and answers in same exact manner. So, i am just curious to know that what is happening here? If it's ...

I've been a member of the group for a week or so (lurking a bit before that) and have been looking at some of the meta chats about getting more participation. I've started to add a few questions and ...

I'm creating a Coffee related iOS app and as a side-feature I would like to allow users to read, ask and answer questions on Coffee.StackExchange from the application. Of course I would make it very ...

We've got a great site here, but we're only getting one or two posts a day at the moment, and it would be good to expand, especially given the new year. How can we encourage more people to post here ...

In the vein of this previous post, please share any ads for Coffee Stack Exchange in the appropriate size!

Have you guys seen this site? http://www.baristaexchange.com/ Looks very similar to stackexchanges' site. For example, look at the header. This seems confusing for our users. Is it also IP ...

I was just thinking about this, and was wonder if we are in private or public beta? I just joined, and have no way of knowing. I am kind of curious because I would like the beta badge.

I love coffee; it is great. Happiness and coffee. Happy Coffee Day!

After a little discussion between the mods at Seasoned Advice (cooking SE) and us, we've decided we're going to push for a bit more migration between the two sites. What this means Asking a question ...

Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2015 is coming soon! Are we in?? For those who are new to the Stack Exchange network, Winter Bash is an annual light-hearted event where users can earn virtual "hats" by ...

I would like to ask a question about descaling products for machines (question below), but wanted to find out if it's on or off topic prior to asking as I'm new to this community. There also isn't a ...

Jefromi's answer here suggests that Product Reviews might be a fun and attractive type of question we might cultivate, as a more manageable alternative to lists and polls. What should they look like? ...

Sorry if this is a dupe. I considered uploading an image with a question but the functionality is not working for me. The interface says "click here" but this seems to do nothing. I tried copying and ...

I have a closed question here and I have some ideas about narrowing the scope. But I wonder if we shouldn't voice some opinions on the broader issues at stake. Poll, lists. On big sites like SO, ...

I peruse both Coffee and Seasoned Advice daily. Even since the inception of the Coffee site, I frequently see coffee questions on Seasoned Advice. Coffee is on-topic at Seasoned Advice, but it's MORE ...

I contributed many example questions and discussions to the previous (failed) Area51 proposal for a Coffee site a few years ago. And I didn't even know about this one until seeing it on the SE ...

I recently asked this question about how to know what type of coffee to use in a recipe, and how to be able to tell whether the difference will be tasted in the final result. I happened to give a ...

I've seen other sites have some success drawing in and retaining users via regular community challenge events, e.g. World Building or Code Review. Since our participation is waning, should we ...

The following question is under review for being closed as too broad. Here's the question: Coffee on daily basis I would like to know what the community thinks about this. Is it too broad, or not? ...

I'm thinking questions such as: What is Kopi Luwak? How do I make a Cappuccino? Simple questions that might not even be asked by the user base until the site has grown a little, but might bring in ...

Australian coffee shops have been taking to stocking their own Keepcups in recent years, often marked with the coffee shop's brand. For those unaware — I don't know what their presence is like ...

Okay, Coffee beta-ers! We're 75 days into beta. How are we doing? According to the Coffee Beta Stats on Area51, certain things are not looking good: Need more questions! "Healthy" is about 10 ...