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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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Could we change the name on the @StackBrix Twitter account profile?
Currently the full name of our twitter account is:
Brix Stack Exchange
Whilst saving two characters in the account name is possibly valuable understandable when someone else already has the ...
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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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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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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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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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Should we have a rendering tag?
We seem to have a variety of questions that are related to creating 3d-renders of LEGO models and parts. There is a lighting that we have on 11 questions so far, but a render tag would be more ...
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Should similar parts identification questions be considered duplicates?
Should questions like this one be considered duplicates in the official StackExchange-sense of a duplicate?
I'm concerned this doesn't make sense for part-identification questions.
Marking a question ...
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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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A clarification request regarding rejected edit suggestion
I suggested this edit removing commentary and relevant information from the given link. However this suggestion was rejected.
The text "best" followed by user's name is just a noise and can be ...
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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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"Close as Off topic" statement is incorrect
The current "Close as off-topic" description reads:
Questions on LEGO® - Stack Exchange are expected to generally relate to LEGOs, within the scope defined in the faq.
As per the official LEGO ...
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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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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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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 we really need a [brick] tag?
While reviewing suggested edits I came across this. Nothing wrong with the tag wiki edit (though I'm skipping in the meantime) but it's for a tag called brick, with 29 uses currently.
Is this tag ...
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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 ...
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Are questions about programming the NXT on-topic?
Are questions about programming the NXT on-topic for this site? I am going to be working on a project that involves programming NXTs using the LabVIEW Mindstorms NXT Toolkit. While general questions ...
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Should video embedding be enabled?
On the gaming SE site YouTube videos are automatically embedded into answers. Could we get something like that too?
It would be very useful for showing mechanical parts/creations in action, ...
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Should we try to get all Mindstorms questions from robotics.se?
I noticed the beta for robotics.se has started.
Not too surprisingly, they already have a question about LEGO Mindstorms robots, and the corresponding tag.
This may mean there is some overlap with ...
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Should questions about LEGO events, themeparks and other things unrelated to building be allowed?
I saw this question today about Legoland, which led to wonder whether such questions should be on-topic: Will it be fun to go to Legoland with my family?
I am 31 years old . My elder sister and ...
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Did we mean to have motor and motors tags?
I just noticed when adding the motors tag to a question that we also have a motor tag. Is there some value to having the singular and plural of this word both be tags? This seems more confusing than ...
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Tag typo only appears in specific place
I'm in the tag page, the tags are sorted by popularity, and technic is one of them, as you can see here.
However, If I go to page seven, I see a typo in the tag name.
Hmm, strange. That typo doesn't ...
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How many TAG tags we need in meta?
I was searching tags for my meta question and it feels tags and tagging both are applicable but do we even need to have them separately ?
Also tag-synonyms and interesting-tags can be made synonym of ...
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At what point should an answer edit become a seperate answer?
When someone improves your answer to the point of providing an additional 2/3 to it, should they, or should they not just offer up their own answer? I researched (what turned out to be an incomplete ...
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Where should generic toy identification questions go?
Based on this question from the close queue and prior discussion on meta, I'm wondering: is there an appropriate place within StackExchange to discuss generic toy identification questions?
I've found ...
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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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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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Winter Bash 2015 [closed]
The end of the year is upon us, and here in Stack Land, that can only
mean one thing: it's time for Winter Bash 2015!
Event Overview
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event we run every ...
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Proposed update to our FAQ Page
As one of the 7 essential questions we should be asking here on meta is:
What should be on our FAQ
I would like to bite the bullet and propose the following as the text for the first section.
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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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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Does anyone still have a clean shot of our old logo?
Since moving to the new site layouts, we've lost our old brick logo. I've finally found the time and inclination to update my own avatar image to a cleaner, crisper one, and I'd like to drop on the ...
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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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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Ideas for how to make ourselves known at events
I've commented in another message about about holding a booth at AFOLcon somewhere in the future and I'd like to expand on that.
Of course, having an actual booth may prove difficult, depending on ...
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Let's get critical: Apr 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love LEGO® Answers, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their ...
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What-brick-is-this type of question
We already have one of the what-brick-is-it kind of question and I suspect, from other LEGO communities, that we are going to get many, many more. The problem I see is that the title is useless. What ...
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What does “user was removed” mean?
I saw a notice in my Achievements suggesting that I was removed as a user from the Bricks group. As far as I can tell this isn’t true, but I’m still wondering what to make of the notification. Can ...
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AFOLCON / BRICK 2014 - Sponsorship Proposal
AFOLCON / BRICK 2014
What?
AFOLCON is a 1 day fan convention, it is the UK's first and only LEGO convention dedicated to adult fans. Attendees will be able to listen to guest speakers, including ...
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Do we have any staff on Bricks.SE?
So, there's a Winter/Summer bash hat for looking at a Staff's profile page, but my clicking through our user pages has not revealed any staff on Bricks.SE. I'm sure I just didn't click through enough ...
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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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Can we create a 'FLL' tag?
We all know that the FIRST lego league challenge announcement is happening soon, and we will definitely ask questions about it. I have noticed that there is no 'FLL' or 'FIRST' or'FIRST lego league' ...
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Will many piece identification questions end up diluting or hurting the site?
I have been going through some new Lego I have acquired, and because of that have been posting a lot of identification questions. I noticed that there had only been a couple before, and I have added a ...
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Promote the site on LEGO related sites
I'm not sure who takes responsibility for promoting Stack Exchange, but it would help a lot if they could organise shout-outs on well known LEGO fansites.
A well worded e-mail sent to the site's ...
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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 ...