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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Should we accept questions on all construction toys, or just LEGO compatible systems?
I guess we need to bottom this out once and for all - during the commitment phase a discussion was started, but didn't really resolve:
Is this site only about LEGO products and other brick based toys,...
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Do we use Lego, or Legos?
On this site, which term do we use (or prefer to use) in questions and in tags? I'm inclined to the former, but then I'm British so that's the only way it could possibly be said.
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Is Lego Mindstorms on-topic?
Lego Mindstorms allows one to write embedded-programing to design robots using Legos. How much of this technology is on-topic?
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Becoming a recognized LEGO User Group
I've been looking into ways to elevate this site as a proper LEGO community in addition to being the best site for finding answers to LEGO questions. After all, we can't be a great Q&A site ...
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Win a LEGO set prize for participating in Winter Bash 2017! (Ended)
It's that time of year again! We're once again participating in Winter Bash!
While this is a "just for fun" activity, I've reached out to TLG about it, and it sounds like they are willing to provide ...
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Winter Bash 2019 LEGO Prizes!
Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network!
While this is a "just for fun" activity, there ...
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Six SE sites currently in the beta stage are due to be scrapped
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet/
Next week, we’re shutting down six sites that fall into this category:
Astronomy
Economics
Literature
Firearms
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2018 Annual Support Proposals
It's time to divide up our Annual Support from TLG as discussed here.
Here are the sets that we were given:
Ideas: Fishing Store (21310), Women of NASA (21312)
Architecture: Sydney (21032), Shanghai ...
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Site name change request from TLG
Some of you are likely aware that there was concern about the name of our site from TLG in the past. As part of becoming Recognized LEGO Fan Media, this concern has resurfaced. I've been in ...
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Site may not be described as "LEGO Answers" - call for alternative titles [duplicate]
UPDATE: After a further review in March 2017, TLG have confirmed that they would like us to change the site name. This post is kept for reference.
I've got this comment from Jan Beyer, Community ...
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Winter Bash 2020 LEGO Prizes!
Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network!
There are a few different ways to win prizes ...
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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Are all these edits really necessary or even helpful?
I'm all for having fun with competitions, but adding prizes increases the stakes further in a game which already causes much unnecessary noise. See for example the flood of trivial edits from users of ...
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2020 Q3 Activity Support Proposals
There's been some discussion previously about how to make use of our quarterly Activity Support provided by TLG. Here's an excerpt regarding LEGO Online Community Activity Support for those who may ...
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Winter Bash 2019 Winners!
I want to say a big thanks to everyone who participated in Winter Bash this year! We had a total of 170 users earn 367 hats!
We added 200 new users to our community this December, more than in any ...
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Winter Bash 2020 Building Competition
2020 has been a challenging year for most of us. I know that my holiday plans look very different than in previous years. For this year's challenge, we'd love to see submissions that explore the great ...
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New recognition status with TLG
Lego has begun to roll out its new model for Recognized Communities.
The gist is that there are now two tiers of recognition and three categories (Traditional LUGs, Fan Media, and Online Communities)....
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Are questions about non-LEGO brick toys on-topic?
Are questions related to megabloks and similar products on-topic?
I ask because the site is bricks.stackexchange.com, but the logo is LEGO ®
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How should we describe the size of a piece?
In order to help with descriptions of pieces especially, should we define a standard for descriptive nomenclature?
eg Length x Width x Height of the basic shape followed by additional identifiers
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Winter Bash 2018 Building Competition
This is the thread where we'll be tracking and voting on submissions for the 2018 Winter Bash building competition. This year, we're asking you to recreate a scene from a holiday song. This can be any ...
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Brainstorm for boosting graduation qualifications
As we all know, we have very few questions per day. A lot of users log on, ask a question, and never return. Furthermore, a large number of questions are robotics or basic technology only.
However! ...
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Should we have a LEGO tag?
I see lego is no longer allowed. Since this site seems to be not exclusively about LEGO, is this a good idea?
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LEGO House AFOL Opening Event - Trip Report
Thanks to the work of fellow Bricks moderator jncraton getting us registered as a Recognised LEGO Fan Media site, we were invited to send a representative to the AFOL Opening event of The LEGO House - ...
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Do LEGO video game questions belong here or on Gaming?
There's a handful of questions about LEGO video games on Gaming SE right now. If I have a question about a video game, do I continue asking there since video games are quite different from the ...
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FYI - informed LEGO of the existence of bricks.se
I've just sent the following message to Jan Beyer, LEGO community manager, to inform him of the existence of bricks.se, now that it's moved to public beta.
My reasoning if twofold: one, make some ...
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LEGO Answers is now Bricks
LEGO Answers has been renamed to Bricks (Stack Exchange)
Aside from the change in name, we are still the same site question and answer site for LEGO and building block enthusiasts.
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement [closed]
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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Bricks SE - Year in Review 2017
2017 has been a particularly memorable year for Bricks SE, most notably for the new relationship that had been established between the site and The LEGO Group.
Through the various community events, ...
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TLG support for BOOST questions
Some of you may have noticed that I've posted and self-answered a couple of BOOST questions recently. As our LEGO Ambassador, I'm trying out something new. TLG has provided me with a BOOST set in ...
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2019: a year in moderation
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, ...
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Is it generally acceptable to answer a question that has an accepted answer?
Some questions continue to percolate even though they have an accepted answer. Is it generally O.K. to enter an on topic response afterwards?
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2018: a year in moderation
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 ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2021
Bricks Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on 27 September 2021, as your “graduation” election (as a result of having lost your beta label a while back).
The timeline:
Next ...
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Ideas for our Annual Support package from TLG
Some of you may be aware that as a TLG-recognized community we receive an annual support package. This is a box of LEGO sets that belong to our community to use for events, projects, promotions, and ...
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Part Identification vs Set Identification
While going through old question I came to this edit where set-identification tag is changed into part-identification. To me it look previous tag was more fitting but before intervening I wanted to ...
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Building vs. technique - How or which to choose?
Right now we have building, which says If your question is about building techniques, this is the tag for you.
But we also have technique, which says Tricks and methods used to build models.
So ...
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Will all open ended questions be closed? I certainly hope not
I recently posted this question about how to build a good bridge out basic bricks ( Bridge from just basic bricks? ), which got closed as being too open-ended, apparently. I found this to be, of ...
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Can we change the icon of the Brick community
Is it possible to set a custom icon / favicon for the Bricks community ?
if yes, is there any guidelines for the icon (provided by SE or can be any copyleft icon, …) ?
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Lego mindstorm proposal going nowhere [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Lego Mindstorms on-topic?
With "Is lego mindstorm on topic" in mind, I see, in area51, a lego mindstorm proposal that is stuck in its raising commitment phase. I would ...
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Enfield Trip Report
I went to the TLG office in Enfield on Friday to report on our community and the support process for Recognized Lego Fan Media. I had a great trip, and it was wonderful to get to meet with folks from ...
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LEGO Fan Media Days 2017 - Trip Report
Bricks Stack Exchange has been given an opportunity, for the first time ever, to attend an official LEGO event since becoming a Recognised Fan Media site in February 2017.
This June I attended the ...
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Winter Bash 2012 Preparations [closed]
Last year, on our Gaming site, we hosted an event called Hat Dash,
where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain
tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger ...
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Are questions on 3rd party software on-topic?
I'm considering this question in particular. This seems like the kind of question that belongs in the developers documentation or support forum.
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Winter Bash 2013 [closed]
This event will run from 16 December 2013 to 3 January 2014. Users
will be able to see their entire hat collection at http://winterbash2013.stackexchange.com.
That site will also have a landing ...
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Good example questions for our FAQ
Well, we've been going over 100 days now, so congratulations everyone - however we've still got a bit of work ahead of us before we can fully launch.
We've seen a steady increase in users, many of ...
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Combine Mindstorms and NXT/RCX tags
What should we do?
- Keep: [tag:nxt] and [tag:rcx]; Unusable/'Reserved': [tag:mindstorms]
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- Keep: [tag:mindstorms]; Tag synonyms: [tag:...
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