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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How should I diagrammatically represent lego bricks in questions?
How should I represent:
2D plan view of bricks
Diagrams of brick interaction
3D views of models
Using markdown?
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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 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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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 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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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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Please, answer like an expert! Upvotes *and* downvotes are critical during this time [closed]
I'm already seeing a flood of low-quality and outright wrong answers to my questions get posted within seconds, and worse they are getting voted up. It's worse than the rep rush I'm used to from ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Winter Bash 2018 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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piece-id, part-id, piece-name? No one's going to tag things right
Right now we have piece-id, part-id, and piece-name tags.
I don't think this is a good approach. No new user is ever going to tag these right, and it's not like a question for a piece name is ...
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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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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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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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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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Community stance on solliciting for reputation
I have recently commented a few times on users explicitly asking for upvotes and accepted answer reputation points. I understand the drive that the reputation points system gives, but it is starting ...
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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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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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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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#WhatWillYouBuild
TLG is putting together an initiative to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the LEGO brick! Many communities, blogs, and review sites will be participating by building creative models and posting to ...
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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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Don't bite the newcomers?
I don't have a ton of SE experience, so take what I'm asking with a gain of salt. I am a fairly established Wikipedian, and over there we have a policy called WP:BITE which basically explains how to ...
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Winter Bash 2016 [closed]
Just a quick heads up that we'll be participating in Winter Bash again this year - for more details on the upcoming festivities, please see below:
The year is rapidly coming to a close, which means ...
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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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Death to the "trivia" tag
I've removed the trivia tag. In my view it veered on the wrong side of meta-tagging to start with. I also always read it as a descriptor meaning something like "this is the kind of question that might ...
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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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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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Problems with set identification questions
We seem to be doing a great job with random set identification - even correctly identifying a much larger set from a tiny collection of bricks, or reverse engineering sets from MOCs, however I think ...
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Do we agree on how to capitalize LEGO?
It seems like LEGO is the official way to write it, but folks seem to like to write Lego or lego.
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2021 Q2 Activity Support Proposals
I've been thinking about how to use our Q2 activity support from TLG. Last summer, we compiled proposals from a number of users for the use of this support. That seemed to drive great content and was ...
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Do we know when the first election is due?
In the post Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta! Catija wrote on 2019-08-01:
full-site elections will be delayed but will be scheduled eventually
Do we know anything about the planned ...
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Winter Bash 2020 Winners!
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in Winter Bash this year. We had a total of 600 users earn 1,070 hats. That's a 3x increase in users since last year.
We had 128k visits to ...
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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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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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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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Why aren't other brands of brick products accepted?
There are many alternative brands for LEGO, however, they do not seem to get much attention. On some Web sites, I have observed much hostility cast on these alternative products. Even this Web site ...
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Will there be Winter Bash 2020 competition on Bricks.SE?
Last year we had Winter Bash 2019 competition. While you could win some LEGO prizes last year it was quite fun to participate on its own. Are we going to have something like that this Winter Bash ...
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Should the clone-brands tag apply to non-LEGO non-clone toy systems?
When I first saw
A technology building set that is not LEGO Technic, K'NEX, or Meccano. Can you help me with the name?
I thought that it should get the clone-brands tag but I refrained because ...
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How old is [vintage]?
I recently noticed the vintage tag. The tag wiki simply specifies, "Used for old vintage LEGO sets and pieces."
How old is old enough for a set or piece to qualify as "vintage"? For example, would ...
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Are questions about the in-universe lore or history of sets or themes on-topic?
Are questions about the in-universe lore or history surrounding LEGO sets or themes, especially non-licensed ones (ones not based on existing stories such as Star Wars, but invented wholly by LEGO) on-...
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Criteria for losing "beta" status
In this question about changing the BRICKS icon it was mentioned that we have not fully graduated yet. I guess this means that we are still labelled "beta".
What are the criteria to be a graduated ...
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Is it valid to ask about whether a given minifig is an official one?
My wife received, via a piece of gift purchasing software, a minifig of Batman with some odd touches such as coming with two large guns rather than any sort of Batarang or grapnel device. Looking ...
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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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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Bricks is scheduled for an election next week, 2021-09-27. In ...
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Is uploading the image of an instruction sheet a copyright violation to be avoided?
In this answer the requested instruction sheet was found in a posting on a site not dedicated to the permanent hosting of content (Ebay). This means the link provided will eventually rot and the ...
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Winter Bash 2018 Preparations
Winter Bash 2018 is coming up fast, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a discussion on how we'd like to handle things this year.
It seemed like it went well last year, and it was fun to be ...