Questions tagged [on-topic-definition]
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What are the guidelines for asking for a critique of my work?
I'd like to ask a critique question for my design. How can I do that so that it fits the Stack Exchange format without being too subjective?
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What are the requirements for font identification questions?
I have a font that I would like help identifying. How should I construct my question to fit within this site's format?
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Revisiting closure, part 3.1: Drawing the line for tech support
TL;DR
Read the suggestion. If you agree with it, upvote. Otherwise, downvote and complain or suggest amendments in an answer.
Preface
I thought a bit about how to discuss tech support once more ...
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Guidelines for critique questions
UPDATE: Here is the official question without all the discussion fluff:
What are the guidelines for asking for a critique of my work?
Are critique questions even allowed here?
There have been a few ...
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What are the requirements for style identification questions?
I would like help identifying a design style. How should I construct my question to fit within this site's format?
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Changing how we handle low-effort and tutorial-on-demand questions
I have concluded that the answer to my earlier meta question about closing questions is 'yes, we are closing too many questions'. Anyone who has seen the Close Vote queue lately will agree that a lot ...
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Do we still feel like 3D questions are out of scope here?
I still feel like banning 3D questions is a grey area here. So much of 3D relates to graphic design. When Photoshop, Illustrator, etc isn't the best option for an effect, 3D software should be a ...
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How should we rephrase "no ultra simple questions" into the FAQ?
I really like the idea of the (probable) future introduction of "General reference" flag. Especially the last note is gold:
Allow your Q&A community to fill itself with enough āGeneral ...
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Asking community to critique work? [duplicate]
Should these kind of questions be allowed? Something like "I've been working on the home page of this website for some time now. I feel all the colors are appropriate, but not sure if the font is ...
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Should we increase this SE's Scope?
NOTE: This thread was initiated in 2011. There have been some more recent discussion about scope (here, here, here and here). If you want to discuss an area not covered by those, please open a new ...
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Are we going to allow 3DS Max/Maya/Modo... questions? YES or NO?
As it seems we are still in legislation on the topic to allow 3D modeling questions. As a community I would like for us to have an official policy in place by May 1st because I see many users are ...
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Request: New close reason "What have you tried"
Edit: As of June 12th, we have retired the 'brainstorming / idea gathering' close reason in favour of a 'please show more effort' reason.
I would like to request the community and the powers at be if ...
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Is 3D on-topic? [duplicate]
Are 3D questions on-topic or off-topic? Into what extent?
See also: Do we need to define graphic design in order to define graphicdesign.stackexchange.com?
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Who are we talking to, and what are we offering?
Two questions, perhaps, but so interrelated that I don't see a meaningful way to prize them apart.
There are several discussions in meta concerning the scope of GD.SE, whether it should be expanded, ...
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Do we want 3D experts to be part of our community?
To give this question a fresh start:
We define ourselves as a community of graphic designers.
The question I ask here is: Does this include 3DĀ experts?
More specifically, by 3DĀ expert, I mean people ...
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Do equipment questions belong on this site?
I've noticed a few equipment purchasing questions on this site. Do questions related to choosing equipment belong here?
What is a good scanner on a budget?
What image tablet can you recommend on a ...
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Welcome to the new Graphic Design Stack Exchange
Recently a number of people have felt the site has declined either in quantity, quality or both. In some ways I agree. However, I see this as a feature not a bug. A feature that can be addressed and ...
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Should this SE site include Technical Questions (IE Photoshop, etc)
As Can Berk GĆ¼der pointed out, these questions might not be fit to the more specific approach of illustrating and building graphic designs, and more about the use of the applications. We both agreed ...
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Is it time to disallow font id questions?
The follow-up to this question can be found here: Moving forward with font identification questions
Just curious to know the thoughts of the font-identification questions and if they really benefit ...
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Should extremely basic 'how to do this in software X' questions be off-topic?
Related, please read as well: Are we so experts to not accept new naive questions? and Are we closing too many questions?
Maybe it's just me, but I get the distinct impression that lately, the amount ...
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Should "Photoshop Users" be its own SE site?
I think the Photoshop questions on this site are getting out of hand. I spend a lot of time on UX.SE and they would never let these types of questions remain open. And to be honest, it's frustrating ...
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How Simple is TOO Simple?
It had never occurred to me until reading this question that a question could be considered too simple. The arguments for weeding out overly simplistic questions are compelling, but how simple is too ...
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Should we make font identification questions off-topic for this site?
I brought up this point in my answer to another question, but I wanted to run it by the community as an independent point.
Since we, the community, have agreed that we don't want overly simple ...
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Font identification: On or off topic?
We're starting to get quite a number of "What's this font?" questions, and I'm curious, do we as a community think they should hold, or should we just get rid of them?
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Now that 3D is in our scope, let's decide which aspects are on topic
Prerequisite reading material: Do we still feel like 3D questions are out of scope here?
We should be a little more explicit about what kinds of 3D questions will be allowed. I think @stephencosh had ...
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What is our stance on link-only questions?
At times we get questions that depend on some external website or image, e.g., this one and this one. What is our stance on these?
Should depending on a link be a sufficient reason for closing?
Do we ...
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Are questions about removing a watermark acceptable?
Inspired by this poorly worded question:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/104524 (now deleted)
Or this one:
Remove Text From Background
Is it acceptable to ask about removing watermarks?...
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Good places to send 3D users?
Recently the topicality of 3D questions has come under discussion. The main issue here is that Graphic Design's user base is unable to answer or handle a good deal of these 3D questions. I think the ...
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Can we set some guidelines for "Style Identification" questions?
UPDATE: The actual guidelines without any discussion - What are the requirements for style identification questions?
It's evident from this recent discussion - Can we get rid of style identification ...
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CSS/HTML questions
Recently there have been two questions that have created alot of attention that I thought I'd bring the discussion to meta instead of a comment trail, for ease of future use.
These two questions are ...
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Are licensing questions wanted?
Are general licensing questions wanted / allowed on Graphicdesign.SE?
I don't mean specific copyright or legal issues which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but broad generic questions like:
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I'd like to encourage more diverse questions
I'd like to encourage more diverse questions. Our user base lately feels like its shrunk considerably while the world of Graphic Design has and continues to grow. As does the number of visitors to ...
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Revisiting closure, part 3.2: Drawing the line for code
There is considerable dispute about when questions about code should be closed.
As far as I can see, this mostly applies to questions about HTML, CSS, or similar and not to questions about scripting ...
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Questions about billing and business practices
I have a question about billing practices for a freelance designer but don't know if that is within the scope of the site.
Specifically, my question would be something like: "How should I charge a ...
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Do we want 3D people to be part of our GDSE community? [duplicate]
My question to GDSE Meta has been greatly simplified per Ryan's input:
Do we want 3D people to be part of our GDSE community?
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What is the definition of 'design' for a "design.stackexchange"
If we are to re-brand as design.stackexchange (See here, here, here and here) we need to define what a design stack would be about. Jeff Atwood just said this:
I like the idea of broading the scope ...
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Should we allow "recommendation" questions?
This question was recently asked and closed: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6054/what-are-the-best-online-collaborative-tools
That particular question had several problems (off-...
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Can we get rid of style identification questions?
Can we just get rid of style identification questions?
Nearly all of them are post some image with no title or text asking for a style that may or may not even be something classifiable. There's ...
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Do we need to define graphic design in order to define graphicdesign.stackexchange.com?
While the beta is at a very early stage, there are a lot of questions which seems to come under the heading of 'anything about graphics' rather than what I understand as graphic design.
It occurs to ...
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Are How-To questions still off topic?
I asked a question recently, and it was pointed out to me that it was off topic. SImple enough, I deleted the question and got my butt over to the FAQs to re-read what is on/off topic.
But then I ...
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"What software was used for this"-questions and how to deal with them
We have had a number of questions lately asking what application was used for X (here and here for example). While it's true that getting the answer may help some people to make a choice, I have ...
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Are various aspects of printmaking/screen printing on topic here?
I know printing in general is on topic as it's already being discussed; but I'm wanting to ask several questions regarding screen printing techniques, tips and tricks.
Since this is on the verge of ...
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How broad are you willing to allow questions to be in order to promote more interesting question content?
A discussion of more interesting question content
I enjoy the deep, difficult questions in Graphic Design. As is obvious in the question lists, Graphic Design is largely used as "Adobe Help Center", ...
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Is Generative Art and Data Visualization covered here? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Proposal to update the FAQ
I recently asked about Generative Art and was able to find my own answer. It was perhaps not design specific enough of a question.
That was "Is ...
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Is "what's the best / most effective / your favourite logo" on topic?
I added the What is the single most effective logo? question, thinking that, as I explained there, it's going to get asked often in one form or another.
Obviously it's subjective (as many other ...
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Why do we allow 3D questions again?
3D questions are piling up. It is no longer believable by askers that 3d questions are not our thing. We have too many of them. The fact is that we are not really equipped to handle them at this time, ...
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Is the feedback tag within our scope? Should it be?
I just noticed the feedback tag on a question. It appears to be a recent addition added to 3 questions since it was created.
Shouldn't we discuss this?
I think there's a notable difference between ...