Word craft does not hint drawing also. Drawing is a out making marks on paper.
If you specify crafts.stackexchange, people won't automatically understand that it is about drawing also.
Can something be done about the name of the site?
We are going to see a lot of activity surrounding tags and especially in the early weeks of this site. I would like to suggest some naming conventions for tags. Please limit your suggestions to one per answer so that the community can vote accordingly for the convention.
http://meta.crafts.stackexchange.com/a/23/96
Robert said:
But in picking a single word for the URL, a site about crafts is much less likely to cause misunderstandings and confusion.
The main reason why I am concerned about having only crafts in the title is that I think that Google produce...
@CreationEdge Yes. I was trying to stop those but did it the wrong way apparently. I think arts and crafts is going to get big really fast so it would be a good idea to try and fix those ones early on.
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For that I'd do crochet
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But some like "drawing" make more sense to be the "ing"
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And papercut should be papercutting (a papercut has different connotations).
> Users with more than 1250 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they reach a score of -2.
This meta question was inspired by a recent site question (Out of Charcoal and Graphite pencils how do I know which to use when?) but I believe it may be likely to come up relatively often.
Arts & Crafts can be a moderately subjective topic. Subjective content isn't necessarily bad for our site,...
There's a disparity with using crochet and crocheting. They're used about 50/50 on questions right now, sometimes doubled up.
It seems like the best bet for tags like these is to make the synonyms, but no one in the community really has that ability yet.
@CreationEdge I believe he was wanting to know where you get your time... ;)
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I get it from procrastinating studying and completely homework!
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What do you guys think about asking for exercises to strengthen your drawing arm outside of actually drawing?
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I need to build up my arm strength after inactivity from arm-related medical issues, and I don't have a lot of time to sit and draw to build up the muscles.
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So when I do have the time, I'd like my muscles to be ready.
I was in 2 last fall. One totaled the truck but I didn't get a scratch, the other dislocated my collar bone (severe dislocation, still floats free) and the severity of my injuries appear to be backwards for what happened.
@ArtOfCode one was weather related and the other was user error. It was actually an accident with a riding lawn mower, I got thrown down a large hill through the woods. The lawn mower almost killed me. Rolling my truck 2 and half times didn't even give me any cuts from broken glass...
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 started using [x] and I'm addicted. What else can I do with it?
Can't think of other possibilit...
Likely there is a cross post meta about this so if someone is aware that would be good.
Arts & Crafts has the potential to be a large and all encompassing site for several different hobbies, crafts and etc. Is there anything that we should focusing on now early in the game. I tried to get a tag...
In general, most sites that are similar to ours prefer the plural or collective forms of nouns for tags rather than singular... e.g., on cooking, the tags are "doughnuts", "vegetables", "measurements", etc. Exceptions are made when necessary, generally when meaning is changed or when the singular...
Anyone know when they reach out to potential mods? We only have the CMs right now.
I think the private beta is only about a week (if everything goes well)... It'd be nice to have some committed people who don't have a bajillion other sites to manage.
I'm a bit confused by the kids-crafts tag... I'd think of it as something to be done by kids but your question is something that's being created for kids... any thoughts?
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@Catija I thought that it moved the comment thread over to chat, and didn't leave it.
@CreationEdge Oh, no... only when a mod does it. They get to pick which parts of the conversation stay and which are deleted and maintained only in the chat area.
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@Catija I put it there because I was hoping for suggestions, actually!
@CreationEdge Yeah, I still don't think that would apply... we can certainly make a Meta question about it to see what the consensus is in the community... and then we need a good tag excerpt so that it's used correctly.
@Zizouz212 Do they have people who would be good mods?
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Well... Time to bring about a wave of downvotes
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I think it's important even here to avoid those link-only answers.
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I don't know how many art tutorials I've had bookmarked over the years that have just vanished into the ether.
I try to keep the label that comes with the yarn I buy but I do have a few balls of yarn where the label has disappeared and I don't have an additional, unused ball (that would still have the label).
Is there a way to tell what fiber(s) a yarn has if I've lost all the documentation for it?
With oil pastels, I've actually found that using an eraser will help smudge it.
If you have a fine eraser, that's decently thin, you should be able to use it to smudge in small areas. When you want to move on to another colour, you may need to eraser the tip off, but it lasts a good while and it...
I think we can all agree, this sucks:
If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...
@CreationEdge I don't know what their tree looks like. They may be in similar positions but different focuses. I know Robert is focusing on new communities. He's generally in charge of Area 51 and all of the uber beta sites. Shog is more general.
@Erica Oh, no, not paranoia... I know that they have scripts that ping them if their UNs get mentioned... Shog shows up after he's been mentioned too often for that to not be the case.
Couple of quick notes here since I'm sick and probably can't write a coherent essay on this:
Flag types exist to direct and differentiate folks' desire to see problems addressed
You look at a post and say to yourself, "there's a problem here". Maybe it's a problem you can fix; if so, there's an...