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Should we remove recommendation tag?
Different communities in SE take different stances on this matter. Recommendations aren't neccessarily a bad thing: see the successful site Software Recommendations.
Personally, I do think well ...
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Do we accept or close recipe requests?
I appreciate the Seasoned Advice stance and think we should use the same basic policy here for questions about "how to make..." something: reject the opinion-based "what's the best recipe for..." type ...
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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
I'd be happy to run as well. I was recently elected a mod on the Politics SE site, so I'm familiar with the tools and the needs of a (smaller) site.
I agree with Stephie that activity is low, and I ...
JJJMod
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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
I would consider running.
I am very much aware of the fact that the user base here is quite slim and apart from a few regulars not particularly active. From what I have observed, we could do with a ...
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Can I post a question asking baristas their experiences?
In my opinion, such experiences may be quite subjective. Therefore, it will be difficult to define the correct answer, which is against the format of the site. Thus, I opt for no.
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Would this question be considered on topic or not too broad?
It may be regarded opinion based, I assume.
The reason for that is there are huge numbers of alcoholic beverages and also huge number of coffee-based beverages. Make the calculation for each possible ...
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Are these two tags the same: equipment & coffee-machines?
The tags equipment and coffee-machines are certainly different enough to remain separate. By counter-example, I would consider an espresso tamper and a grinder as "equipment" but I couldn't consider ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
On large, high-traffic sites, with active community moderation/curation, moderators can be exception handlers. Coffee SE currently gets very little traffic, and has little community participation. ...
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Should we enforce the correct use of the [espresso] and other coffee machine tags more strictly?
The underlying issue is with the tag descriptions.
Make the descriptions more precise.
Add usage information to the description (e.g.: "do not use for XYZ, use other-tag instead").
Then it'...
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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
As one of the original pro-tem mod team, I support this. While I am happy to have been a part of this site for much of its formative time, I am no longer as active as I would like. I will continue to ...
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Switching to 3-vote close/reopen
Yes that sounds good to me. It allows the community more opportunity to close and reopen questions without any downsides that I could think of for our small community. Us mods can still control ...
JJJMod
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
Most content curation is the responsibility of the community at large. The defined moderator role is intended to leave the smallest possible footprint and not create a burden for volunteer moderators....
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Coffee terminology: Which is correct? Coffee grinds or grounds?
Formally:
ground coffee is coffee grounds;
prior to brewing, they are fresh grounds;
after brewing, they are spent grounds;
the level of fineness of grinding is the grind.
Referring to ground ...
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Coffee machine question
I would argue that coffee machine repair is a facet of producing and consuming coffee and therefore is acceptable as per the guidelines on What topics can I ask about here?
Coffee Stack Exchange is ...
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How much does Coffee Exchange care about being welcoming to new users?
One thing that's new for me on this Exchange, though, is to have found myself harassed by a commenter who decided to doubt the facts of my post really without much of a purpose. This commenter decided ...
JJJMod
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How to deal with question that is essentially the same question but about a different model of coffee machine?
Thanks for highlighting this. In general, putting in policy for this sort of thing is not necessary, unless it becomes a regular issue. In general if you see user behaviour of any kind that you think ...
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What should be our motto?
Not Just another Drink, But A Caffeinated Gateway to Zen
A Caffeinated Calling
Brewing the perfect roast
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Are city-specific questions on-topic?
Old question, but timeless on SE. Conceptually, SE sites are intended to build a knowledge base applicable anywhere, with long-term value. There are a few exceptions, like I imagine Travel (although ...
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What's the convention on coffee regarding signatures in questions and answers?
I see no reason why a different rule should apply.
And when you are fixing a typo, removing greetings and signatures is common sense. It’s a minor edit, some may think it superfluous, I appreciate ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
Moderators tend to be selected from a site's most active and enthusiastic users. In small sites, the moderators are typically the community members most likely to be exploring how to increase site ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
(reused my Politics Meta answer as a template)
I looked at the data a bit using this SEDE query. There are 59 questions where the accepted answer is outscored by another answer. In 21 questions the ...
JJJMod
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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
I might run for this if there is a short of candidates.
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2022 Graduation Election: Community Interest Check
Without further ado:
I am planning to run again, hoping that the community will renew my diamond from the beta days.
StephieMod
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Switching to 3-vote close/reopen
I imagine a moderator being reluctanct to vote to close a Question or delete a post since that takes away an element of Community participation. The moderator vote is binding, so waiting until the ...
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What is the Coffee SE position on posts generated by ChatGPT?
Until further notice we will be adopting the SO policy on ChatGPT posts, which means they are banned for almost all contributions, including questions, answers and comments.
This is in accordance with ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible