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We should be giving credit where credit is due
I have seen several answers now that are just cut and paste from other websites. While that is fine as we want to have the content here it is important that these external sources be properly ...
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Are digital arts on-topic here?
Clearly, drawing and painting are very on-topic here, being arts.
Are their computer equivalents (i.e. with graphics tablets, etc) on-topic here?
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Please welcome your moderators pro tempore!
First off, thanks to everyone who participated at the moderator nomination meta post!
I may eventually be contacting additional users to fill more moderator slots, but I wanted to get the folks below ...
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Accepting nominations — Who should moderate this site?
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need ...
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Are questions about the business side of selling your craft/art on-topic?
As someone who's on Photo.SE the "pricing" question comes up all the time from newbs about to embark on hanging out a shingle, and it often gets closed as too localized, or opinion-based, but some of ...
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Community gallery #1 - Anything goes!
In this thread we suggested to create a community gallery on Meta, in the hope this will increase participation, grow our community, and improve interconnection.
It is time we start promoting the ...
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Are unconventional canvases generally on-topic?
We had this question about painting a kitchen item:
What type of paint should I use to decorate a kitchen appliance?
That was apparently closed and then reopened by the community after editing ...
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How do we deal with idea generation questions?
As we know and will likely keep seeing as this site progresses there will be plenty of subjectivity. I anticipate that we are going to get questions along the lines of
What can I do with [x]
I just ...
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Platforms for sharing works of art and craft
Recently, a question came up asking if requests for platforms to share works on is on-topic on our site. It is not (with the current exception of our Community Gallery).
But in order to help users who ...
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Let's advertise the community on some related sites!
It's getting a bit quiet here and we'd like to up our visibility a bit.
We think a good start for that is to create some directed Community Ads on other sites (as was discussed previously here).
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Vote Early, Vote Often!
At this stage in a beta site's life, one of the things it needs most (along with questions, answers, and users) is VOTES. Voting from the community on questions and answers will help to determine what ...
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2020 Moderator Election - interest check
This community hasn't had any new moderators since the original three were appointed about four years ago (including yours-truly) and has never had an election. A couple of months ago one of the two ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Arts & Crafts's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Community Moderator Strike
Man, what a mess.
I wasn't sure if making this public was necessary, but yesterday and today (of all times?) a relatively high amount of spam seems to have been introduced to the main site, so I want ...
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We are getting rid of our Beta status!
Upcoming Thursday the 16th of December we will lose our Beta label, and Arts & Crafts will enter its 'mature' stage! So ..
This means, among other things, that we will join the list of 'Launched' ...
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What's good verbiage to explain this off-topic subject area?
This wording was suggested in a draft of the Arts & Crafts FAQ page:
Discussion or critique of works, whether your own another artist's
This is a condensed version of a proposed off-topic ...
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What guidelines should we set for "identification"-style questions?
I know that ID questions are very contentious on different sites - some sites love them and others hate them.
I believe that they can be successful here if we set some strict ground rules to make the ...
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Is the "How to cover books without bubbles" question on topic?
Right now there is a question about covering a book with contact paper (How can I cover books with contact paper without bubbles?) And I'm curious if this is considered "on topic" I would like to get ...
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Anatomy and reference images
A question was asked today (titled "Bowed head" reading pose) to find an appropriate image to use as a reference for drawing.
While the nature of the question is not appropriate for Arts &...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Arts & Crafts has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and your first elected moderators are:
You can see them listed on the moderators page - please thank them ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election - Nominations begin August 10th
Summary: Arts & Crafts Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 10th to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement ...
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What should our on-topic FAQ contain?
Stolen from Cooking.SE - If you're unsure how this should look, check out their version, which has really great examples. It's generally a good idea to have a separate Meta question to reference that ...
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Is it OK to cite brand/shop?
Is recommending a particular shop, online shop, or brand when answering a question acceptable, or would it be considered advertising?
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Identify-this-painting questions
There was a recent question (Art identification) that was closed. A user disagreed with the closing, and I thought the reason was interesting and worth a meta question -- they declined to start one, ...
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"Step guides": The how-to question sagas
Quite possibly one of the largest things with arts and crafts is discovery. Lots and lots of discovery. Drawing from personal experience, I've loved to learn new crafts, and showcase things with ...
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Chat room name ideas?
Arts & Crafts has it's own beloved chatroom!!! Woot!
The issue is, a few things.
Make sure to chat! Discuss! Chat's your third home, feel free to take about the site, or even just have casual ...
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What topics can I ask about here?
This section is currently blank in our Help Center. While we can't have an exhaustive list of Arts & Crafts (IIRC, that's something that got hashed out on Area 51), being specific about what types ...
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I don't think we need [practice]
I have seen practice show up on a couple of questions now. I should think that it is a given that people are here to learn and practice. Comes part and parcel with the territory of SE and especially ...
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What about the commitment phase questions?
So there were plenty of good questions there.
Would it be considered fair game to ask those on the main site now?
There could be some good questions there that could be left abandoned by the askers....
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How can we increase participation in community moderation?
By design, Stack Exchange is based on community moderation. Non-moderator community members have access to almost all of the tools to do content curation/moderation. Even brand new users can ...
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Are "how do I reproduce this" questions on-topic?
Would a question of the type "here's a portion of a painting1 I really admire, how do I reproduce it?" be on topic?
By "reproduce", I don't mean "how do I use a copy machine", obviously. :) I mean, ...
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What can we use as sources of inspiration for questions?
I am already starting to have trouble coming up with good questions for the site. At least in chat I have seen other users have a similar sentiment as well. Sure there are time constraints in people's ...
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Scope reconsideration: practical suggestions
It's been a while since the Arts & Crafts scope reconsideration topic was active. I still feel it's an (or the most) important step in shaping this website into a more consistent and mature ...
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What sort of chat events should we hold?
Not all Arts & Crafts questions are well-suited to the StackExchange model -- for example, "does my artwork look good" or "what craft can I make with popsicle sticks". However, these could be ...
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Please help the Arts & Crafts site by voting
On any site, voting is how the value of posts is identified and sorted. That's part of what makes the knowledge base valuable to the vast majority of readers.
But voting also plays a vital role in ...
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Should we reconsider the name or scope of "Arts & Crafts"?
There are constant off-topic posts because a question is about art in general, art history, or art theory, and not limited to applied technique or not solving one certain practical problem.
Maybe ...
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2022 Potential Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
It's time for us to consider holding an election for moderators for Arts & Crafts.
The last election we held was back in 2020, where we elected two moderators, and since then, one moderator (Erica)...
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How topical are crafting tool questions when they get into history?
This meta question is inspired by a recent A&C question:
What happened to slant-needle sewing machines?
Slant-needle sewing machines used to be all the rage, and it's easy to
see why: being ...
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What is (y)our stance on linking to specific articles and retailers?
I'm seeing a lot of hyperlinking to specific products in answers. Obviously, these can aid a lot in finding the right product for the job and are usually not directly problematic.
However, many of ...
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Does this site include the literary arts or music?
This site is an arts and crafts beta. Does this include language arts? Poetry, short stories, novels and such? If not, where should I go for that?
Does music count as an art here?
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Can we take questions asking for a description of an art genre?
A question was recently asked about anime/manga:
When discussing my art, particularly some of my graphic novel pieces,
with several of my younger colleagues they have mentioned Manga. All
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What are Arts and Crafts?
So far, we have some questions asking about specific arts or crafts. We may ultimately find that this is the best way to deal with what is or isn't on topic. Having said that, there may be some ...
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How subjective can a Q/A get before it's too opinion-based?
This meta question was inspired by a recent site question (https://crafts.stackexchange.com/q/78/30) but I believe it may be likely to come up relatively often.
Arts & Crafts can be a moderately ...
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Would the community appreciate month-long themed events?
I'm coming to you as a relative outsider with a suggestion for a month-long themed event, but it was suggested in chat that either this might not be something the community would want to take part in, ...
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If we had a art/craft exchange, who would participate?
I don't have details but I wanted to see how interested people are in this.
We got several upvotes on the "Secret Santa" idea on the one-year celebration idea generation question, so I thought I'd ...
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Next week (April 26th) marks our 1-year anniversary! How should we celebrate it?
April 26th, 2016 was the first day of our private beta (and May 17 was the start of our public beta) which means that in a few days we will celebrate one year as a site!
Should we celebrate?
If so, ...
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Suggestion for increasing traffic: community gallery
We have discussed and are discussing methods to increase traffic to and retainment of our community:
Suggestion for increasing traffic: schedule regular chat events
How can we increase participation ...
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Should we have weekly/fortnightly topic challenges?
A long time ago, on a site far, far away (roughly two clicks), a great suggestion was made. Jon Ericson came up with the idea of weekly/fortnightly topic challenges. For those not willing to make the ...
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I would like to introduce a new HNQ based feed in chat
We have been in public beta for a while. One of the many ways our site gets attention is via the Hot Network Questions(HNQ) feed and site bar on StackExchange.
There is a formula that will elect ...
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Should we create some basic FAQ questions for popular types of Arts and Crafts?
I've been thinking about the sites I use, particularly Cooking, and I find that they have some great basic FAQ questions on the main site that help users answer more specific questions without asking ...
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