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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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Is it possible to give away ALL reputation points as bounties to other users?
...of course bounties are welcome, but does it possibly contradict any stackexchange rule I'm not aware of to give away ALL my reputation points to other users over time in the form of bounties?
I don'...
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How to solve the problem of dead links to external clouds (blend files)?
I'm beginning to realize that it's quite inconvenient when a (blend) file related to a question or answer is lost over time because it's no longer available.
External links that are outdated can be ...
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Should I flag comments as no longer needed for fulfilled requests?
I noticed there is a flag No longer needed
Should comments that request something like:
please provide the blend file
be removed after they have been fulfilled with a comment like:
i have added ...
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Asked a question; actual answer was combination of two answers with some extra info
I asked a question. Two people answered, and each provided half of the correct answer with a tiny bit that was missing. I have no idea how best to select the "correct" answer.
I am totally ...
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How can I ask this question in Blender Stack Exchange, without it being closed due to being opinion based?
The following is the question I recently posted on Blender Stack Exchange, but it was closed because it was opinion based:
What is the standard technical workflow for high quality short films?
What ...
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Animated gifs of Blender [duplicate]
I see a lot of questions and answers posted here with animated gifs of various sections of the viewport attached to them. Can anyone tell me how this is done? Does it involve a 3rd party application ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Blender has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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Editing questions that include the tag in the title?
Is it wise to edit the title of questions if they include the (only) relevant tag?
Geometry nodes. How to Separate mesh islands by the largest island?
Arc Between Edge Endpoints Using Geometry Nodes
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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2022 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.
Blender Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-...
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Should the tag [geometry-nodes-fields] be a synonym of [geometry-nodes]?
Duarte Farrajota Ramos made an interesting suggestion in a post that is worth discussing:
"I think geometry-nodes-fields tag should be removed and made a synonym of geometry-nodes. I don't think ...
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Custom Filter with Tags and Operators?
Is it somehow possible to create a custom filter that only shows certain tags, but at the same time only shows unclosed questions?
I would like to save a filter that contains the following search ...
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What happened to the bookmarks?
Yesterday, strangely enough, all my bookmarks were gone.
Instead, a new system was apparently active, where questions and answers could be saved and nested in categories.
This was a great idea, but ...
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Moderator election 2022 interest check
UPDATE: After discussion with the moderation team, the Community Management Team has went ahead and scheduled an election to start question collection on October 31, and nominations on November 7.
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What's the tag [project] for?
I was reading a question and noticed it was tagged with project. Looking further I see 65 questions tagged with it, 28 unanswered. There's no description for this tag, but it seems to be used mainly ...
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What should the "MathJax help" link (on the Editing Help page) point to?
MathJax is a JavaScript library that displays mathematical notation in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX, to display "pretty" math notation, useful when describing complex constraints, ...
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How to post code snippets
How do I paste properly formatted code in Stack Exchange?
Whenever I try and post code snippets it gets posted as regular text
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Why does reopening (and closing) questions not work?
Reopening
I recently received the gold badge for geometry-nodes, and the tag description says:
These users can single-handedly mark geometry-nodes questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed.
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Selecting NurbsPath as hair particle render object is not showing on the plane in viewport
I have already asked this question in Blender Stack and got solution of converting geometry to mesh but i don't want it to convert into mesh but as a path only and got suggestion to ask here in ...
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Do I need to create a new account for all stackexchange sites?
I want to post some questions to stackexchange/webapps. I was requested to create a new account, which I did with the same email address I use for blender stack exchange. Do I need to create a new ...
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Why was my Question About Dithering Closed?
I asked a question called How do you Render With Foyd-Steinberg Dithering in Blender?, and the question was closed.
Why was the question closed?
How can I fix the question?
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Searching answers that you gave
According to stack exchange meta, to search one of your answers, you have to use the search bar as follow:
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When will Blender Stackexchange get dark mode?
In 2020 Stackoverflow finally got it's dark mode release.
When will it be available on Blender Stackexchange?
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When to use italicization for keywords? [duplicate]
I'm curious and a bit confused on when to use italicization for keyword terms. I have noticed that in this revision the italicization has been taken out for Image Texture. I have noticed that most ...
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Is it okay to transfer reputation to another account using bounties?
Let's say I have a new Email adress and make a new Stackexchange account using it. My old account would then be obselete but all my reputatuin is still on my old account. Would it be allowed to use ...
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What am I doing Wrong when flagging?
I flagged this post that's obviously lacking in details and clarity before the comments in that post came in saying the same thing that it was lacking in details. But it got declined without any ...
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How do I deal w/ question with bounty already given (as thanks for time & effort) but still unsolved?
In my question thread Why does "nw_add_textures_for_principled" work w/ Existing Material but not w/ dynamically created ones? I have put a +100 bounty ...
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Suggestion for new node name formatting guidelines
Once upon a time, there were no nodes, the world was still simple then.
There were main menus, context menus, input fields, keyboard shortcuts, etc. and the highest of feelings were a few lines of ...
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Tried to Help User By Editing Their Question But They Rejected It
There is this question that lacked alot of details so we were exchanging comments until i realized what their problem was. So I was kind enough to help them out by doing this edit so they could get ...
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Collaborating on answers
I sometimes have a good idea writing an answer but one part is missing (which i don't know how to do it).
For that i would like to have a kind of "collaborative" answer which might have more ...
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Why do I receive a "Voting corrected"?
I have in no way abused this platform, or in any way encouraged others to vote my posts excessively.
I think I have worked hard and well earned the reputation here on blender.stackexchange.com over ...
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Question misconception on stackexchange
Unfortunately , staff on blender.stackexchange act like they're robots and won't read the peoples question and close them immediately.
I don't know what is this unlikely and unfriendly action means, I ...
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I wanna upload Blender screenshot videos here. What are the best open source screen capture programs for Windows 11? [duplicate]
I wanna upload Blender screenshot videos here. What are the best open source screen capture programs for Windows 11? Is a GIF recorder good?
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Why are bots surfacing lots of old questions so that they show up in Active? Should they?
In the Active questions list (which is the default view when going to the top level blender.stackexchange.com site) there appear to have been recently a lot of old questions, by which I mean they were ...
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How to deal with questions that need more information that in the question proposed as a duplicate
This question was closed as a duplicate of this question. Although the questions share the last part of the answer, answering the newer question requires information that is not in the original answer....
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Handling of off-topic questions
I know it's technically correct to close this question, for example.
Rephrasing of off-topic questions is unlikely to bring them within BSE's remit, so the standard explanatory message is not quite ...
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What should we do with outdated answers?
Sometimes we have outdated answers like this one:
How to unattach an object and reattach it somewhere else in an animation?
There is no information about disable and keep transform for example, ...
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What Animation FIle Types Should Be Used in Questions/Answers?
I'm sure this has to be a duplicate, but I haven't been able to find where it's answered -- a link to the existing answer would be appreciated!
For still images I've used jpgs for all my questions and ...
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Why? Is this the norm for new people?
I am pretty new to all this forum stuff and was in hope I would find some answers to my questions. The 1st question I asked was closed after 2 responses, doesn't seem like that good of a forum to me.
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Why does Blend-Exchange say my file is not a blend file?
When I upload my Blender file Blend-Exchange I get a message saying my file is not a blend file. Why?
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Where should this question go?
I asked a question about downloading Blender open movies - and explain in the question why I need to download them instead of just watching them online. I have an answer, which I haven't checked out ...
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Thanks And Hi's
I was going through some old files and found this: https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/. I think that is from 2018 or 19. From my ...
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Meaning of comment at end of page
I just got a notice of activity on a question of mine that's been closed. At the bottom of the page, I see this:
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Set comment as answer
In this picture Robin Betts has the answer of my question, but how do I set this as the answer. I don't see any controls to upvote or the check-mark, the only thing I can do is add a comment..
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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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question closed unfairly again
After a year off-site, my question promptly got closed again. I assume you have read it. Now to my defense. Blender has an internal mesh representation, my app has an internal mesh representation and ...
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Where do import a blend file to my question? [duplicate]
I already converted my blender file to a blend file from Blend-Exchange, but I don't know where I'm supposed to import the file in my question? Please provide detailed instructions, would help a lot! :...
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How do I add blend file to my question? [duplicate]
I'm new here and I want to provide my work in my questions, but I don't know how. Can someone help?
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How do I create video clips that demo the sequence I'm using? [duplicate]
Some responses to my questions show a short video clip that demos the actions they recommend. How are those video clips created?
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