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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Where can I ask for an expert opinion about photography?
Whenever I ask a question about a camera recommendations I get blocked because it's off-topic or too broad. Isn't the purpose of Stackexchange to ask a question where an expert can answer?
I'm ...
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Tag creation request: smart-previews
I just asked (and answered) a question that was related to Lightroom smart previews, and there are lots of other questions about Lightroom smart previews on Photography Stack Exchange. Do you think we ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election - Results
Photography's seventh 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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2020 Moderator Election Q&A v2 - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 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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Would questions about finding images that fit a description on-topic?
I have an idea and would like to find an image that well illustrates it. It isn't mentioned explicitly in What topics can I ask about here?
Below is my sample question:
I am looking for images to ...
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Can I ask for a photo rating on the main site?
I submitted something for the old Photo of the Week competition. However, it probably won't get viewed.
Can I post a question on the main site asking for a rating of my photo?
Thanks!
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“Recommend Deletion”
Greetings enthusiasts,
I've crossed over the 2K reputation mark (which is well back in the rear-view mirror for probably everyone reading this) and now StackExchange is suggesting that I review "...
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Should Photography SE have a photo competition and how would be best to work it?
I'd like to ask for opinions about a photography competition on this site, further to the discussion in comments in this post: Photo Competition 2020-01: Portraits by candlelight
I'm a keen SE ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election - Failed Election
As previously announced the current election wasn't able to gather the required number of candidates to be competitive. We must consider this a failed election and have halted it.
The next steps are ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 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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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2020 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.
Photography is scheduled for an election next week, June 15th, 2020....
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Moderator Election - Community Interest Check
Photography last had an election back in 2017. Right now we have an opportunity to run an election for the site, and after consulting with the mods, it sounds like it is a good time for 1 or 2 new ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Stepping back after a decade — see you all around!
As I write this, my profile says "Visited 3361 days, 3353 consecutive". (I guess it took me a couple of weeks to get going.) Over those nine-plus years, that's an average per day of 1.1 helpful flags, ...
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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 the Photo-SE community effectively dead?
I've noticed a gradual decrease in participation amongst the top 10-15 or so active contributors here on Photo-SE, in the past ~6 months (roughly since June 2019). Coincident in that timing is the ...
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Why is the photo contest in Meta and not in the Main?
I think the photo contest is the most interesting thing on the site and should get even more importance!
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What resources is Stack Exchange dedicating to meeting the needs of Photography Stack Exchange?
It's been more than six months since this post promising
Generating revenue from non-technology sites will enable us to dedicate more resources to meeting your needs so this is good news.
(...
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How to handle answering (or not) based on online documentation that is of questionable legality?
Some technical questions could be best answered by referring to schematics and service manuals.
Some such manuals and schematics can be found on the web, however it is questionable whether these are ...
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Contest Proposal: Replace image size requirement with a ratio limit
Proposal: Replace image size requirements with a ratio limit. For example, image ratio should not exceed 16:9.
Rationale: There is no need for a set limit on image dimensions because Imgur ...
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Should the featured photo be shown on meta?
On my computer, the featured photo is shown only on the main site, not on meta. Should the featured photo be shown on meta as well?
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Is it possible to feature a meta question on the main site?
A perceived problem with the contest is it doesn't have enough visibility. This could be addressed if it were possible for meta questions to be featured on the main site.
Ideally, such a question ...
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Contest Proposal: Allow down votes and periodically remove down voted entries
Proposal: Allow down votes. Periodically remove the most down voted entries.
Rationale: A major problem with the photo contest is the only way to remove an entry from the list is for it to "win". ...
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Contest Proposal: Close out entries from inactive users
Proposal: Remove entries from users who are not active on this site, starting with entries from users that have been inactive the longest.
Rationale: A major problem with the photo contest is the ...
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Stack Exchange employees: somebody do something about the contest
We're at the point where low-quality entries which did not even follow the contest rules are being selected as winners. We had a proposal with some energy behind it, but a moderator shot it down ...
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Tag Synonyms - Should They Contain Sub Types?
I was going through the tags to add descriptions to the new ones and see a few created recently: Ilfotol and Wetting-Agent.
Ilfotol, being a type of Wetting-Agent, is not really a synonym but a sub-...
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Contest is definitely dead. Now what?
So.... we had an idea for revitalizing the contest by moving it to the main site but the moderators (who of course need to be on board for it to work) didn't like it.
We've had plans to inject some ...
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Requirement to make post-pro questions non-app dependent?
Lately, it seems like app requests for post pro needs (cross process and pano come to mind) are threatened with closure due to a product rec.
Years ago, it seems that these questions were not just ...
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What can Stack Exchange do to better build a photography community of practice here?
As Stack Exchange plans to expand advertising to this site, staff says:
Thanks entirely to the efforts of your community, this site has become an amazing resource on the internet. Generating ...
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How bad does it have to be before the “special deletion” clause is invoked when a user is removed?
Why do I have a reputation change on my reputation page that says 'User was removed'? Includes the following:
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a very high ...
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“Good news” and non-technology
Does this "good news" mean that we might get some resources or features to help us with attracting users interested in the "non-technology" aspects of photography? Because that's precisely what we've ...
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Why is my answer downvoted while another answer I think is wrong upvoted?
Can someone explain me the behavior of crowd when there are mostly downvotes because of one sentence in answer. And from other site wrong and misleading answer (also one sentence) get only upvotes
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We're testing advertisements on Photography
My name is Juan M and I'm one of the community managers here on the network. You can read more about some of what I'm working on here and here.
For several years we've had advertising on technology-...
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Has anyone proposed Splitting Photography stack into to two; digital photography and analog photography?
Has anyone proposed Splitting Photography stack into to two different stacks; digital photography and Film photography ? Is it a good idea ? ( i say it is because my brain thought it up all by itself, ...
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Counter-Proposal: Leave contest on meta. Add critiques to main site
Re: Contest refresh suggestion: let's take entries on the *main* site
Re: Proposal: Rules for *New* Photo Contest on Main Site
I propose we create a "critique" tag on the main site, instead of ...
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Should we rephrase this old question?
I stumbled on this question by pure chance, and noticed that:
The focus of the question is a linked picture, but the link is broken
Picture aside, the question is written in a somehow convoluted way
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Is systematically downvoting the posts of some person who downvoted you permitted?
I downvoted on an answer few days ago, explaining carefully in a comment why I think the answer is incorrect. My votes are 72 up / 2 down. Today, I noticed my reputation on the site has gone down by ...
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SQL help wanted: data explorer query to find winner of (proposed) new contest
See Proposal: Rules for *New* Photo Contest on Main Site.
We need a https://data.stackexchange.com query which will show the current winner. Specifically:
questions in the previous Sunday-to-...
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Should we elect an additional mod specifically to help with the contest?
In the discussion on refreshing the photo contest, current mod @MikeW says:
Available mods. There are periods when one or two mods don't visit for a week or more. I try to keep the "weekly" contest ...
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How can we make this open ended question answerable?
How much time do you spend actually shooting a single look? is almost certainly too broad and opinion-based. Yet, it's clearly about photography and a respite from the common questions about gear and ...
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Proposal: Rules for *New* Photo Contest on Main Site
The consensus of Contest refresh suggestion: let's take entries on the *main* site appears to be that taking the contest to the main site and attempting to expand on critique is something that we ...
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Contest refresh suggestion: let's take entries on the *main* site
I'm taking inspiration from @xenoid's answer to Is there any hope for making this site about photography?:
Maybe the weekly contest is a wasted occasion? Instead of adding a picture as an answer to ...
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How can I ask a question about a famous photograph that I don't own the rights or any license to, without violating the photo's copyright?
Recently, the New York Times ran an article called "Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?" about a famous photograph of four jazz legends on stage in a small NY club in the 1950s. Reading the ...
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Comments in Edits?
I came across a suggested edit for this answer: Fujifilm X-T20 vs Pentax K-3 II. Am I missing any significant differences?
I rejected the edit as an attempt to reply. Is this a correct SOP for this ...
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Camera as a tool for not-photography..where to direct questions?
There are many instances of using a camera as a measuring device for real world height, or maybe as a photon counter, or something else entirely...but all not being concerned with producing a ...
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Questions not about photography involving devices whose primary purpose is not photography, but which can be used for photography?
So it seems Questions (potentially) on photography using not-quite-a-camera...cameras are considered on-topic.
What about questions not about photography involving devices whose primary purpose is ...
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Opinions on updating EVF question
Disadvantages of electronic viewfinders? is a pretty useful basic question, although the answer could use some modernization. However, the question (and answer) refers to Sony SLT, which is
a special ...
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Questions on photography using not-quite-a-camera…cameras
Inspired by the close vote on this question: How can I get a fixed short exposure ( < 2s) with a GoPro Hero 4 Black?
At first glance, it appears quite on topic; The GoPro natively takes pictures ...
