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Are "identify my bike" postings on topic here?
Every week or two there is an "identify my bike" post on bicycles.stackexchange.com, typically with no other information besides a picture and the wording from labels on the bike. Is this considered ...
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How do deal with foreign-language posts?
I've seen a few questions where a user posts in a foreign language (in my case: 100% Russian), for example: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/a/93451/69562
I usually put these through a translator ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Merge [luggage] into [cargo]
The cargo use case says:
Carrying stuff with your bike, using racks, backpacks, trailers, etc.
All the luggage questions are about carrying things on the bike except these two about
Packing a ...
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Combine [paint] and [paintjob]
Weirdly, paintjob has a lot more questions than paint, but the tags don't seem to be distinguished in a useful way.
There are questions about
applying (or preparing to apply) paint
subset relating ...
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Merge [race] into [racing]
We don't need both racing and race.
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How do users give feedback for the Bicycle SE community?
Perhaps a meta question, but where is a good place to express praise/suggestions/concerns for the bicycles.stackexchange.com community?
On many other forums, rarely are people ever as tolerant and ...
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Disambiguate or combine tags for [city] and [urban-riding]
Most (but not all) of the questions tagged city are about urban-riding (and indeed some of them are cross-tagged).
The exceptions seem to be:
Some questions about city bikes
(Not to be confused with ...
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Consider synonymizing [new-rider], [beginner], and [newbie]
I suspect that new-rider and beginner are used interchangeably. If so, they should be merged.
Conceivably, one could be "beginning" things that are not "riding," but if that's the ...
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The [advice] tag seems like a meta tag
Is there a single question where adding advice is helpful? Remove and block?
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Disambiguate the [learning] tag
The learning tag seems to fall in two (or three) categories:
One about new riders, which should be retagged as the winner of the new-rider/beginner merge
One about skills, which should be retagged as ...
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Canned Moderation Responses
I have a doc that I keep with some "canned" moderation responses. I add them as comments when going through the mod queue. Since a large portion of the community participates in moderation activities, ...
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Consider synonymizing [shocks] to [suspension]
Unless shocks is meant as a special case for suspension, I think they could be merged.
Happy to listen to counter-arguments.
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Consider synonymizing [technique] and [skills]
All of the skills questions could reasonably be retagged under the tag guidance for technique, with the possible exception of one about group-rides.
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How to identify to provide accurate information to other cyclists
Does anyone know a site I can send pictures of bicyles to help me identify them?
They are all 2017 to 2021 except a blue Battaglin frame. The ones I have in the US are a 2017 Willier, Dacordi Carbon ...
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Disambiguate [theft] and [security]
The tag guidance for security specifically cites theft-prevention. Should theft be used only when a bicycle has actually been stolen? Or some other case? If so, we should add tag guidance (currently ...
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Merge on meta: [tags] and [tagging]
In making some other tag synonym requests, I've discovered that Bicycles.Meta.SE has a tag called tags and one called tagging. Are these substantively different? Presumably both cover what tags to use....
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Synonymize [di2] and [shimano-di2]
Combine the tags for di2 and shimano-di2. There's no need for both.
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is it appropriate to ask for product details?
If one were to discover a product online (not viewable at LBS) and, before purchasing, wanted to check very specific details about it that the manufacturer and reviewers did not provide (or which one'...
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How to address the LinkGlide "principles shift"?
Given the goal of the stack is to make an "universal database", I'm wondering about one point: the arrival of LinkGlide/CUES changes a kind of "rule" in terms of compatibility, ...
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Should question titles be more general or more specific?
Should question titles be worded to describe the broader ideas of the question, or should they be made as specific as possible? For example, I recently made a post asking how to make Trek FX Sport 4 ...
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Do we need a Clydesdale/Athena tag
In cycling, we use the terms Clydesdale or Athena to identify riders who are a few sigmas above the mean in terms of weight. I’m surprised we don’t have these tags.
There is a tag “heavy” but many ...
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On/Off topic - race strategy, from the POV of a viewer?
Recently we had a well-received question about why Pogačar responded to attacks from Roglič and from van Aert in stage 11 of this year's Tour de France.
Bicycles.SE's [tour] describes our site's ...
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Moderation Strike Update
I had previously shared a post regarding the Stack Exchange Moderation Strike. I wanted this community to know that while the strike hasn't officially been called off, it appears to be winding down. ...
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Stack Exchange Moderation Strike
Some of you may have already heard that there is an ongoing disagreement between the larger network of Stack Exchange moderators and Stack Exchange, Inc. This disagreement has led many moderators and ...
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Proposed ChatGPT Ban
I propose that we officially ban ChatGPT and other computer-generated questions and answers with the following text on our help page:
AI-assisted Generated Content Ban
Please be aware that all AI-...
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What is the best way to help improve Bicycles SE?
There are a few moderation privileges available to regular users, but I am wondering which ones make the biggest impact to improve the overall quality of Bicycles SE.
For example, I see that many tags ...
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What can be done to thwart posting of answers using Chat GPT or other AI Answer Machines?
Recently (today/yesterday) there were several answers posted by a "user" (Jordan Thomas) who appeared to some to be using Chat GPT or another type of artificial intelligence (AI) tool to ...
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Are tag wiki edits put into the standard Suggested edits review queue?
I proposed 5 days ago an edit to a tag wiki that had no excerpt. I was curious to see if those kind of edits went to the Suggested edits review queue as normal question/answer edits so I looked at the ...
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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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Should I ask personal coaching questions? How?
Suppose I want to learn technique X. "How to learn X?" would be a good question here, but I already know from elsewhere that I should do A, B and C, while paying attention to D, E and F. I ...
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Would it make sense to have an [outdated] tag?
Some questions (such as this one about automatic shifting) primarily have answers which contain outdated information. I think this can be especially harmful, considering how these old questions are ...
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Consider removing the chain-tool tag?
Bicycles Exchange already has a tag for "tools" with its wiki as follows:
Tools you use for repairing, maintaining, building, etc. Pump, chain breaker, wrenches, spoke tool, repair stand etc....
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Who should get the votes for a question/answer that has been significantly edited?
I asked a question that got four upvotes. But one person had various complaints about it. I thought it was fine but invited them to improve it. The result was in my opinion of no use to anyone, and ...
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Basic questions asked by Cycling Brands
There was recently a very basic exercise (aerobic vs anaerobic) question asked by a user whose entire account indicated that they represent a cycling clothing brand.
Seems strange to me.
Is the ...
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Kick-scooters - on topic or off topic?
I asked a question yesterday about brake blocks for plastic wheels.
Plastic rims and brake pads
At the time it seemed on-topic because its totally bike components. However not all scooters are ...
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On topic: ebikes are on topic for bicycles.se
It's 2020 and ebikes are here to stay.
I'm trying to retrain my initial urge to consider electronics questions as off topic (which may be because I don't have strong electronics knowledge); if they ...
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Feature request: New vote close option for off topic
When we vote to close, we currently have a variety of options, however currently we have to select the 'other' and add a text description for questions that are not about bicycles/cycling.
I propose ...
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Should we have a custom profile covering bicycle specs?
It is bit tiresome to have to describe your main bicycle over and over. Couldn't Bicycles have a bicycle profile (sure some people would have multiple bicycles with wheel size, its picture, tire ...
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Is Puncture a suitable synonym for Patch?
In What should I put in a bicycle emergency patch kit for situations more severe than a common puncture? I see that user2617804 points out there is no tag for Patch
I was going to add it as a synonym ...
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How to react to wrong answers from members with high reputation?
Let's imagine there is a very persistent member, with a high reputation (above 10k for example). This member is capable of giving good answers sometimes, but also capable of expressing opinions that ...
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Should I have closed this question?
I'd like to ask for a check on my mod powers. I closed a question just now that I'm pretty torn about.
What applications exist for bicycle power, besides propulsion?
I closed it because it's pretty ...
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Link to the wiki to the sidebar?
The wiki is not easy to find: if you search for "wiki" you find a lot of links to Wikipedia. And you need to know to look for it in the first place. If we link to it to the sidebar, we can ...
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Survival analysis for tires?
I will need to buy some new tyres in the near future and in the process of reading reviews on websites it occurs to me that the anecdotal information is not overly useful. The main reason for this is ...
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Do we need both the [children] and [kids] tags?
I noticed that on Bicycles.SE there is both a children tag and a kids tag. Neither has any usage guidance, and the are not synonyms. I don't see a good reason for there to be both, though, so I think ...
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Could we have the link button on mobile app too?
Several times I tried to write an answer from my mobile phone and suddenly discovered that there is no "link" button there (there is only a single button to insert the picture). Few times ...
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Should the frostcycling tag exist?
It seems that someone recently added a tag called frostcycling. It doesn't have usage guidance at the time of writing. Looking at the list of questions, they appear to be not distinct from the winter ...
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Site design updates are live!
Most of the changes won’t be visible (except for tweaks to the header that were made to condense the space to get the question list higher); these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to ...
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Probation for problematic participants?
There's someone who has been making fairly frequent "noise" comments. Is there a mechanism for putting his comments into a review queue before they go public?