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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What should we do with outdated answers?
Sometimes we have outdated answers like this one: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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Look at my file (via pasteall, or others) and answer me, the good way, now?
Is that acceptable? Things have changed (I think). Since some months, this has became usual here.
Is this due to some change in BSE rules?
Or should we (repetively, again) ask, in comments, for more ...
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How do I create a Prosthetics?
I posted How do I de-construct a model created by someone else? two days ago. That post was closed. I edited the original post to explain that this was for a prosthetic finger. That post remains ...
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Add version tags
Can tags be added for major releases of blender? For example version2 and version3. There are different features and some ...
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Anyone in favour of adding an asset-browser tag?
Granted the asset browser is not the shiniest addition to 3.0 but it's definitely shaping up to be really nice in 3.1, and I predict a bunch of questions arising in the few coming months.
There is a ...
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Blend-Exchange not accepting v3.x files
I tried to upload a 3.0 version blend file into blend-exchange and got the message "All uploaded files must be in the blend file format". It appears to not recognize post 2.93 file formats....
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How do I ask a question about the effects that a modifier will have on geometry without answers being "opinion based"?
How do I modify a question that asks about the effects of applying modifiers so that the answer will be "fact" based rather than "opinion" based.
I'm uncertain how a question that ...
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Way to set dark mode for https://blender.stackexchange.com/?
Is there a way to set the web interface to dark mode for https://blender.stackexchange.com/? I don't see that option in Edit Profile > Preferences. Thanks.
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Let's add a tag for [metaballs]
Why is there no tag for metaballs? Metaballs are a matter of discussion like anything else, and a very distinctive topic.
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Massive issue with moderators
I had originally decided to drop this and just not come back to these forums after the way I was treated, but something badly needs to be done. I tried asking the same question multiple times in ...
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I suddenly appear unable to suggest tag entry edits. Does anyone know why?
According to this question there are three reasons to ban someone from making tag edit suggestions and two of them definitely don't apply:
because a large number of recent suggested edits by you were ...
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Proposal to finish cleaning up the "Modes" tags - completed
Final Version as implemented.
Proposal
I've gone through the various tags related to 3D Viewport Object Modes and with help, the object-mode and edit-mode tag wiki entries are consistent with each ...
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How do you propose an edit that changes a tag from a synonym to a separate tag?
I've come across edit-mode. It is similar to object-mode, but rather than being a separate tag, it is currently a synonym for editing. since Edit Mode is a specific mode that Objects can be in, it's ...
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Unupvote after many days, no edits were made in the meantime
I've just been dinged for an upvote reverse on this question as witnessed by this summary
Earlier, the downvote showed in the time line and I've had the points deducted from my reputation but now it'...
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Workflow question: How to specify other StackExchange when closing because the question is on the wrong exchange?
I just tried to vote to close a question because it needs to be migrated to another site. I got as far as this popup:
but the question belongs on the Python stackexchange, not blender.meta.
Is there ...
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Are questions about Sheepit on topic? We do have a tag for it, after all
We, myself included, just closed this question about SheepIt because it's off topic, but I think that was a mistake. Before I propose reopening, I want to discuss why I think it should be, to see ...
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blender.stackexchange.com is the only site that does not reflect user profile changes
The following is a minor issue.
When I open my user profile page on blender.stackexchange.com, I fond my old contents. The other sites have reflected the latest ...
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I appear to have 'serial voted'. Would a moderator please explain the specifics so I can avoid doing it in the future?
When I logged on this AM, I found that I had been deduced 12 reputation points because "Serial Voting was Reversed". Would someone please explain what I did that triggered the deduction, so ...
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How do I hilight words in grey such as Blender hot keys? [duplicate]
I've searched right through the markup help and can't find any mention anywhere of what hotkey or incantation to use to create the grey hilighting (with or without the surrounding box outline) when ...
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How do I thank the moderators for being so responsive to raised flags?
The title says it all. I've raised several flags over time that required moderator intervention and the moderators have been very responsive. Is there a preferred way to say Thank You?
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Life On The Surface
TV show
If I ask myself the question, If BSE was a mini series what would it look like? SE sites are somewhat a pyramid scheme, would we set it ancient Egypt, who would play Duarte?
IMHO one of the ...
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What is BSE's attitude to 'Promotional' Q&A's?
A few times, I've seen questions posted, and self-answered immediately. The answers are often good, and link out to a tutorial on the subject. An example might be:
How to create a perfect circular or ...
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How to thank somebody for editing his answer or comment and adding value to it?
This is not really about Blender, but this site (sorry that I couldn't find a tag for it, and because it is required, and I cant add a tag yet, had to use the nearest possible). The site asks to avoid ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. Since there were no ad proposal submissions on this site, none will be displayed — go to the main post on MSE for a list of the ads that are ...
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Why are seemingly on-topic question marked off-topic?
I am wondering why one of my question Bevel operation results in different result in similar mesh was marked off-topic.
As I understand it falls under the topics listed here: What topics can I ask ...
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Mark comment as answer
I'm new to this style of forum software. How do I mark a question thread in this forum as answered (presumably beneficial for potential future viewers of the question) when the answer was given in a ...
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I asked a question as an unregistered user earlier, but I can't reply to the answers now
This is the question I asked:
How to generate Perlin Noise for materials
Now I can't reply because my PC doesn't know that it was really me who asked that question. What can I do?
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Custom Off Topic Close messages 2021 Edition
David recently brought up again on chat the matter of our site's custom off topic messages.
This has been discussed a number of times before here on meta, but got lost to time, and nothing fruitful ...
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BSE has a external image problem
We all will agree that there should not be images hosted externally.
However in the past it has been accepted to host gifs larger than the 2mb size limit of ...
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Unable to locate specific question posted by another user
In the last few days, I came across, in my RSS feed for Blender a question that I want to revisit. I did not follow it nor post a comment, but I'd like to return to the post.
The terminology in the ...
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A moderator is vandalizing questions and removing parts of questions he doesn't want answered. How do I report this moderator abuse?
As the question says, an abusive mod is vandalizing my questions because he is "offended" by them, removing important parts of the question to ensure they can't be answered. How can I report ...