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Why did a question become a Community Wiki?
Why did What are common mistakes that you see in "professional" designs? become a community wiki?
When I'd originally posted it, I was worried it may be too subjective. After positive ...
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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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What sites can we use to help promote this site?
What bloggers, forms, tweeters, etc can we use to try and help promote this site?
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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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What does it mean when answerers usernames do not link to account profiles?
There are 2 answers to this question: Exponential degrade or similar effect to this one
Both have usernames specified, but they have the same icon and no links to profiles:
What does this mean?
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'graphic-design' tag shouldn't exist
I see no point having graphic-design, because all the questions should be relevant to the site's title. I see it as probably the severest form of meta-tags.
Even if the "graphic" should disappear ...
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Upgrade design of graphicdesign.SE to look more like meta.photo.SE
I really like the look and feel of http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com
It is so much more aesthetically appealing than that of https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/
(which is basically just using ...
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Tag Confusion - infographic information-graphic
What is the difference, which is correct? They both serve the same function; should we blitz one?
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permissions - slacken rule for sites in beta?
Asking questions on the newer stackexchange sites, such as this one, has been rather frustrating for me because the tags I would like to use are simply not there yet. For now, I have just forgone ...
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Why can't people write questions?
It's a generalisation, but I'm pretty sure the majority of users' headlines aren't actually in the form of a question, and when they are, the majority don't end with a question mark.
Why is this, and ...
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Design of Website affecting visitors?
I know the websites don't really get their "design" until they become public, I understand this. But as a Graphic Design oriented website, should we petition an earlier design stage? The issue is that ...
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Questions about video: should this question be re-opened
This question was closed by Robert Cartaino;
Free fast and easy animation with sound. The reason: off-topic as per faq. correct as per the current FAQ states under 'what questions can i ask [on ...
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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 “General ...
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Topics for inclusion in the FAQ
We've been hashing out what types of questions are on-topic and what types of questions are off-topic for a few days now, so I'd like to start preparing a draft of what will be added to the site's FAQ....
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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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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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Added a `how-to` tag to the collection
As an experiment, I have added a how-to tag to six questions to see how well it work in managing questions that come in the general form of "How do I [perform action] in [given application]?".
This ...
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Creating a firm plan to increase readership: Let's get out the vote!
I'm bumping up this topic so that it doesn't fall by the wayside. There have been a couple questions already about this (here and on Area 51). I'm starting a new thread with the clear goal of ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
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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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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Photoshop questions
Over on photo.stackexchange.com we have gotten quite a few photoshop related questions that are outside the realm of photography, but would probably fall into the graphic design space.
How does the ...
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0 view but 2 answers, the main page works in a strange way?
Why my question get 0 view but 2 answers? I think the main page is not work correctly, could you please fix it.
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Worried that visitors are just from other SE sites, can we suggest some outside SE promotions?
I would VERY much like this site to come out of beta. Great job guys for creating it and great job community so far for keeping it running.
However, I have a concern that the only people active on ...
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Who owns the Graphic Design chatroom?
The Graphic Design room doesn't seem to have an owner:
Of course, the low activity in the room now means that it's fine without an owner, but I think it would be a good idea to give somebody the ...
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Tagging: How to differentiate professional printing and everyday printing?
At the moment there's a single 'print' tag.
But I think there's a need to differentiate between
printing the designer would do themselves for draft/preview/one-offs
printing the designer would hand ...
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Have you considered making promotion for Graphic Design StackExchange ?
I mean, that would definitely attract more users, and while probably would bring a lot more off topic questions(which would get closed as in any site), would increase also the number of the good ones, ...
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a lot of questions on composition, should we make a wiki or resource reference?
I was even one of those people asking a question of this kind compelled by the need of finding a good way, or variations of ways on make compositions.
What you think if we can put up a wiki of ...
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the DRIBBBLE question
Does anyone have a Dribbble invitation to give? This is my email xxx@xxx.com
I think that many designers would love to ask this question, but I feel as the same time something to not ask in this ...
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what about “Business related questions”?
Example:
I want to sell my graphics on t-shirts, and I have some questions to the experts because I never did anything similar before:
1) Which material of t-shirt I should sell that has good ...
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Can I ask a question about achieving a specific effect in Photoshop?
How do I get this effect in photoshop? (the hover effect on portfolio)
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How long to get this website public?
Upto how many days will the website remain in beta until it gets public?
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Closing consistency?
One user, michelemarcon, asked the questions:
Where can I find tutorials for Gimp?
Where can I find tutorials for Inkscape?
Where can I find tutorials for Photoshop?
Where can I find tutorial for ...
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should we ask question and answer them implementing always an images, if it is possible?
I think that this group should, more than other groups, play on the implementation of images in questions and answers. We are working with visual, and we need a more visual approach. Shouldn't insert ...
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Are print preprocessing questions within scope for G.SE?
How far down the (professional) printing process are questions allowed on G.SE?
I'm thinking about specific PDF settings, dealing with colour profiles in photographs, application-specific functions ...
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How should we deal with “Good sources for …” or “Where I can find …” type of questions?
There are already quite a few question asking for resources, which basically ask for links:
Where are some good places to find free stock images?
What are good sources for Open-Source fonts?
Where ...
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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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How are hardware shopping recommendations dealt with? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do equipment questions belong on this site?
This question:
What is a good scanner on a budget?
is essentially asking for a shopping recommendation.
Now I don't mean to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How subjective is “too subjective”?
One point of contention I've seen across most SE sites is that questions shouldn't be too subjective, should have concrete answers and be of a defined scope. Yet, when dealing with an area such as ...
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Graphic of the week
One thing I've seen in the photography community, and I think this site would really benefit from, is some kind of a design of the week. Specify a size, and let people show off their talent to the ...
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Inconsistent Tagging Scheme
It appears that there is somewhat of an inconsistent tagging scheme for the Adobe suite programs:
adobe-illustrator
photoshop
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Should this SE site include Technical Questions (IE Photoshop, etc)
As Can Berk Güder 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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Copying Questions From Definition Stage
I've never been involved in the start up of a stack exchange site before, but it seems to me like we should be copying some questions from the definition stage which were voted on as good questions. ...