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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021: 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 preceding calendar year.
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Beer, Wine & Spirits has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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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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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Summary: Beer, Wine, & Spirits Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 16 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process see the ...
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Would it be possible to a add marijuana to this site’s parameters as being on topic?
Beer, Wine, Spirits & Marijuana
Would it be possible to a add marijuana to this site’s parameters as being on topic?
Marijuana is slowly becoming permitted as a legal recreation drug, just like ...
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Add migrate to Home Brewing in flag menu
In flag menu option needs improvement > a community specific reason > This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network I think Home Brewing should be added. As of now only ...
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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 questions about drinking games be considered as on topic?
Should questions about drinking games be considered as on topic?
I personally do not care which way the answers go. I simple would like to know if we could consider if drinking games would be ...
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Can the tags [whisky] and [whiskey] be merged?
Both tags whisky and whiskey refer to the same thing; they're just different spellings. Can these two tags be merged?
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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 this community hidden by default?
I looked through my profile and I noticed that my activity for this stack exchange is set to "private", which means only I can see a full history of my activity on here. The community is marked as a "...
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Can't select Beer, Wine & Spirits on Data Explorer
I can't select Beer, Wine & Spirits SE from the input field on https://data.stackexchange.com/.
The placeholder is "search by name or url" but:
if I start typing https://alcohol.stackexchange....
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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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Are tool recommendations on topic?
It has been a long time since I was active on Alcohol.SE and I wanted to check to see if asking for a tool/app recommendation questions were on topic before I posted a question and opened myself up to ...
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Is this question on topic? Beer from unusual yeast
I had posted this question and got deleted. Is there anyway I can ask this question and be appropriate?
https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/7333
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Is it on-topic to ask about a non-alcoholic substitute for liquor?
Would a question about finding a non-alcoholic substitute to mimic the flavor of a particular liquor be topical for Beer, Wine & Spirits?
(Note that I'm not requesting migration, or saying it's ...
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Would "modern ways of alcohol concealment" be on topic?
I would like to ask a question(s) on the modern ways people use to conceal alcohol (bootlegging) on their person, but would like your input as to whether or not it would be considered on topic on the ...
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Changing the layout of the top menu to match stackoverflow?
This may sound very weird but I like the style and layout of stackoverflow's menu at the top, with a search centered and other menus to the right side. Is there a way to apply this to the rest of the ...
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When the site changed from Beer to Alcohol?
I'm going through the meta posts, but I can't find the relevant posts. Since when the site changed from Beer to Alcohol and why?
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I'm not sure this question about wine sales commissions is off-topic
This question about wine sales commissions I thought was an edge case. Not sure what harm it does by leaving it here. I don't know the inner workings of SE (although I am a programmer) and just want ...
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User was removed
OK, there might be a few times that I have got up people's noses - but this morning I wake up to lots and lots of down votes across various different sites on SE. Everywhere where this had happened I ...
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Is this question on topic?
Commemorative wines for a particular movie?
Not long ago, I read this article (Francis Ford Winery unveils Wines to be poured at 2017 Academy Awards® Ceremony & Governors Ball) and it got me ...
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Question about questions?
I am not sure that I am going to express myself correctly here or even if this subject will be seen with favor, so I beg for your understanding if I go amiss.
Would it be possible to make questions ...
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One of my questions seems to be missing
I had a very generic question about Popular beer by country .
Its seems to be missing from my list ?
Why so ?
EDIT :
https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/2168/most-popular-beer-by-country
It ...
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Should [strong] be a tag?
Recently there was an interesting question about the strongest drink in the world: What is the strongest drink in the world?. The question has the tag strong, which seems off to me.
While it's clear ...
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Why so few people?
OK, so I am fairly new to this site, being a refugee from seasoned advice. But seriously, where is everyone. I have been putting up questions, even answering them as I think that this is a great ...
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Proposal for badges on Beer, Wine & Spirits exchange?
Some of the exchanges have little quirks, for example: the badges on music exchange are musical notes...
I propose that the badges on our exchange look like little droplets of our various favorite ...
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I clicked 'Unanswered' questions but question with answer came to
I noticed that visiting 'Unanswered' questions shows even questions with answers. Does an answer have to be checked in order to be counted as an answer? Does it matter of the only answer has a ...
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Bartending questions
This site being dedicated to alcohol, it seems natural that we would attract bartenders to engage in the community. I believe that bartenders would produce questions frequently and along lines of ...
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Would this question be considered on topic and not too broad on main?
Seeking online sources where companies offer free labels for their products (beer, wine or other spirits)?
A few years ago I discovered that Crown Royal offers free custom made labels (restriction do ...
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Why was this question put on hold?
I recently asked this.
I'd like to know why this is considered too broad. To me, it seems that there either are other major types of liquor or there arent, its not too broad...
I'm not asking about ...
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Would this wine recommendation question be on topic here?
Would the following question be on-topic for this site?
I am looking for a red wine recommendation. The Roman Rituale of
the Catholic Church has a special blessing which is reserved for the
Feast of ...
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Rename the [style] tag to [beer-style]?
Currently style's description and usage is exclusively to talk about beer styles, but wine has different styles as well when referring to taste profiles and production methods.
I think that the ...
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synonymize taste and flavor tags
flavor and taste are actual synonyms already and their use in questions seems to be fairly similar to requests for a beverage that meets a flavor profile to asking how serving in X or doing Y would ...
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We need to explain our tags
We are starting to have a serious problem with tags. People are just tagging questions for the sake of tagging the question instead of thinking what the tag means.
I think this problem comes down to ...
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Should [Foreign-beer] exist as a tag?
All 11 questions for foreign-beer are asking about how to get beer from one place another place and given the international nature of stack exchange these range from buying American micro-brews in ...
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The specialty-beers tag needs some love
We have a tag, specialty-beers, which seems to be quite the hodge-podge:
Questions about "themes": Band Beers? In your counrty, Which beer or beers are associated with Lent?, What other beer brands ...
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Should recommendation questions be on topic?
I agree that the Food/alcohol pairing questions should be on topic because there are reference-able guidelines and cultural norms for those beyond opinion.
However I noticed a few questions asking ...
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Would anyone like to create a community ad?
I think cooking folks would probably be happy to serve a community ad for y'all. It'd be awesome if someone would make one!
There are pre-made community ads from area51, but they're not exactly ...
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Time to pad out some tags
I have noticed whilst going through some tags that a lot of the tags do not have any context or description behind them
I think it is time we sorted this out
If you come across a tag that does not ...
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remove the untagged
Whilst exploring the site I came across this tag untagged
I have gone through and re-tagged the questions as appropriate(awaiting review)
and i think that this tag should be removed as there is no ...
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Let’s all play 'Tag'?
Just wanted to have a quick say about tags,
If you read a question and it has a tag of wine and the question is about red-wine please edit the question and re-tag as appropriate this is all in the ...
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To Hop or not To Hop
I was just wondering if questions about different Hops would be appropriate on this site or would that have better place on home-brewing. The way I was think was more about the taste of the hops and ...
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Urgent Call for Moderators
We recently had a few slots open for Moderator positions that we need to fill. Finding folks who are willing to take on these leadership positions is crucial to the continued existence of this site.
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Are questions about drinking establishments to be considered on-topic?
Are drinking establishments, like pubs, taverns, brewpubs, garden pubs and so on, to be considered on-topic with the expansion of this site?
For example: I am thinking of places where microbreweries ...
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The future of “Beer, Wine & Spirits”
Update: Barring anything unforeseen, the switch is scheduled for Monday, May 9. Hold on to your beer mugs, wine glasses, and whiskey tumblers.
Recently, we solicited a thread to Propose a new name ...
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Distillation of beer?
Will the subject on the distillation of beer be on-topic with the new scope extension as practiced at the non-professional level (home distillation)?
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Propose a new name for Beer SE!
As initiated in Shaken, not stirred; let's expand the site!, Beer SE is expanding to include a variety of topics not limited to wine and spirits!
What should the new site's name and subdomain be?
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With the scope expansion, we now can ask non-beer questions
So we might need to remove the word "beer" from the question block:
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