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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Gardening & Landscaping: Weekly Topic Challenge
Jon Ericson has come up with a wonderful way to boost the amount of questions on the site, and promote activity in topics that may otherwise receive only minimal attention. And it will be a lot of fun....
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How to ask plant identification questions
This site will have a lot of plant identification questions.
Please post your entries for common terms and phrases used to identify and describe plants below.
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Your new site design is live!
As you can see, the new design just went live!
At this point, we are done with major revisions to the design (although you can still report CSS/styling bugs by starting a new post and tagging it with ...
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Custom Gardening & Landscaping design and logo - Information gathering
Congratulations Gardening & Landscaping SE community! We’re going to be creating a custom site design for you that we hope will represent your subject and we want you all to really love it. You’ve ...
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Should we retag identification questions once they're answered?
We have a lot of identification questions now, and I wonder: would it would be useful to retag these with the identified plant/pest/disease when this has been determined?
For example, this question ...
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Design ideas for gardening.stackexchange.com
Gardening may be some way off graduating from beta but it won't hurt to start thinking about design ideas. While we're still in beta our background theme is the generic "sketchy" design consisting ...
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What's the best way to promote more high rep users?
Looking at the users here, you'll notice something. There are 3 active users over 30k, and then the next active users are well under 6k. It's almost like tiers. This is unnatural. About 3/4 of the ...
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When to upvote?
I saw this question.
What is this bug on my adenium plant and what should I do?
It had two responses to it and had no upvotes. I upvoted.
It seemed odd that the question was worth flowing to and ...
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Teaching a man to fish, garden, and ... shop.
1. On the topic of "shopping" questions:
For a bit of history, in the early days of beta, we had an explicit shopping question: Where to buy cane supports in London. The question is now ...
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Is there community interest in an SE gardening blog?
As we go through the year there will be topics that are borderline for our main Q&A site, but still have a lot of value to the gardening community at large and will help bring more traffic and ...
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Where are the boundaries on-topic vs off-topic
Two question have sprung to mind as I have played around here the past two days, and I feel like they need to be defined fairly quickly and update our FAQ to reflect our definitions.
Where is the ...
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What is the policy on questions regarding generally illegal activity?
What is the appropriate response for questions regarding growing e.g. Opium Poppies, Cannabis, Coca, etc. and other behavior that is illegal in the US?
I know over on the Homebrewing SE, pretty ...
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Only 4.8 questions per day: something to be worried about?
The site currently generates fewer than 5 questions per day, although we have a good answer ratio (98% of them receive two answers), and a sufficient number of 'avid' users. Is this fairly normal ...
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Is a sprinkler/pest question on topic?
This question was asked a few moments ago, and I am really tempted to click close as off topic, but since we are new here I wanted to check in with Meta.
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What should the scope of our Blog be?
Following the track of this blog post, now that we have gauged community interest (and there is obviously some) now its time to begin talking about what our blog will look like? What topics should be ...
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Can we declare that diagnosis and Id questions without a photo are off topic?
As a part of the new close changes that are forthcoming we are allowed to add some custom close reasons.
However, the only custom reasons we are allowed are for "Off Topic" questions. I'd like to ...
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What is the plant tag used for?
I noticed today that there is the tag: plant.
There's currently no tag wiki for it, and from the questions that use the tag I'm not really sure what the tag is supposed to be used for.
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If you want the site to succeed, you need to VOTE!
This week there are two people that voted.
Me and a user named Sue.
If you want your site to succeed, you need to vote.
Go look at all the meta articles describing the NEED to vote on questions. ...
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Are area specific questions OK?
Are questions like "What is a fast-growing deciduous tree for shading house in summer? (Southern NY)" OK to ask here?
On one side I can see them being very helpful, but I can also see them becoming ...
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How to exit Beta, after 6 years?
Note: I don't mean beta as the scientific name of beet's genus.
Looking at Area51, e.g. our page: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1369/gardening-and-landscaping and comparing with other ...
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Announcement: new users can now post images
Since the beginning of Stack Exchange, new users—those with less than 10 rep—have not been allowed to add images to their posts. Since this can be a deterrent for them, other users on ...
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Notify tag synonyms here
Tag synonyms are used when
there are two different words used to mean the same thing. For e.g., hydration and watering mean the same thing. In this case, the more common word should be made the ...
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How can we improve quality in the [identification] tag?
The identification tag is the most widely used one on the site (as I write, there are 294 questions using it, and 200 for the next most popular, trees). However, many of them are little more than the ...
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Are questions about a marijuana garden allowed?
Given the fact that it is legal to grow in some states should questions regarding growing marijuana be allowed?
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Let's get critical: Oct 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Gardening & Landscaping Stack Exchange, 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 ...
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Dropping "Landscaping" from the title?
Other questions on meta deal with whether or not certain kinds of landscaping or "hardscaping" (someone else's word, but I like it) are welcome here, or better asked on the diy site.
I feel it's OK ...
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Are patio paver questions off topic?
This one was just asked. I believe it was determined to be off topic in the definition phase of this project (In the spirit of This off topic question and this one too ), but I'm not sure so I'm ...
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Discussion on examples of possible borderline topics for Gardening and Landscaping site
Here are some sample topics/questions I thought of that may be considered borderline. I'd like to here everyone's thoughts regarding whether they fit in or not:
Advice on rain barrel system to ...
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Gardening & Landscaping site design and logo — Draft
Nice to meet you all! I'm V2Blast, one of the other Community Managers here at Stack Exchange; I'm also working with the design team on the site themes project alongside Catija. I first want to thank ...
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Getting location data from users
I posted my first question yesterday, and the person that answered my question added my location as a comment to my question. I found that just a tad bit strange considering this is the interwebs and ...
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Why is it off-topic to ask for a source for a plant?
My question, 'Where can I find a source of Schlumbergera russeliana', was closed because it was thought to be unconstructive. What was unconstructive about it and why is it off topic?
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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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Are questions about installing artificial plants on-topic?
This question was just asked on the main site: Minimal install of artificial grass for small enclosed pet area
As the title says, they're asking about installing a small area (from the photo, it ...
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Ideas for Gardening & Landscaping's Anniversary Contest [closed]
Gardening & Landscaping turned 1 last Friday (8 June 2012) — a big round of applause to everyone who participated in the site! I've talked to SE Inc. and they've agreed to sponsor a site ...
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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:
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Is US spelling prefered here?
Recently two questions about chil(l)i got edited to the word with single letter L.
Is the US spelling preferred here and should be edited?
Thanks
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Weekly topic challenge: terminology [completed]
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for terminology.
So, we're going to build our base of terminology questions. These can be closer to
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Are "Where to buy X in city Y" questions on topic?
This is in reference to this question. IMO it is ok to ask "what sort of X should I use to do Y to my plant Z", with the answers most likely containing suggestions to different products. But questions ...
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Should Zone-Specific Tagging be allowed?
Will allowing tags for specific gardening hardiness zones be a good idea? I think so. For instance, someone may ask a question about when to plant some veggie/fruit and the answer may be wildly ...
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How should we evaluate claims' authority?
While reading this question and the only current answer, I was reminded of a standard set up on Cooking.SE that might be apropos here. What standards should we apply around gardening answers?
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How to know whether my questions are on topic or not?
My question https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3262/are-there-any-proven-health-benefits-of-eating-organically-grown-food was closed. I'm not too bothered, but would like to have a better ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Should we edit in both °C and °F where temperature is concerned?
Obviously a significant proportion of our audience (namely in the United States) prefer °F over °C, whereas the rest of us work in °C.
If a question or answer features temperature, usually the author ...
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why do you need 10 rep to post an image?
I see new users unable to post a picture for identification because they only have one reputation like this and this
This makes the question difficult to answer and frustrates the user. I realize ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
We're nearly 8 months into our beta phase, and we probably should aim for graduation this year. One of the steps involved is laying out our acceptable questions in the main FAQ clearly.
As this ...
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General Sprinkler questions welcome here?
This question came up today. I mentioned the author might be better served on the DIY site as its more of a plumbing question than anything else. Should we welcome general sprinkler system questions ...
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Should the [seed-starting] and [germination] tags be synonyms?
I noticed today that we have tags for both seed-starting and germination (with the latter having a synonym, germinating). Both tags have wikis, but the one for germination has a lot more detail. The ...
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Close similar questions or answer with links to existing answers
As spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere we are starting to see questions from first time users that have, in many respects, been asked and answered before.
The choices are to answer the question ...
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Do we really want questions asking for off-site resources?
We get a fair number of questions asking for off-site resources. Some recent examples:
Competitions and lectures for garden designers
A website for keeping track of my houseplants
What good websites ...
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