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Proposal for Rephrasing the Software Bug Close Reason
This has been bothering me for a while, and sitting on the back of my mind for quite some time. I'd like to discuss this with the rest of the community and my fellow moderators.
There are a few things ...
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Should we have a tag for Node Tools(Geometry Nodes in Tool mode)?
I think this is a distinct topic. The contexts are different and use cases as well. I think there will be questions specific to Node Tools and a tag is appropriate.
What do you think?
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What to do with all the links to pasteall?
I'm not a user of this site. I just happened to be doing some cross-site meta research in relation to Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers, and noticed that a ...
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Update the game-engine tag
I would like to open an... Open... Discussion... Damnit I said that twice!
We often get questions about third party engines, some based on Blender like Armory/UPBGE, some completely unrelated like ...
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How to upload a blend file on BSE - good practices and advice
There are multiple topics asking where, and answer giving websites such as Blend-Exchange, but not much guidance on how to do it, what to include, ...
Thing is, while for most questions it's just a ...
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How to Convert a point Cloud to a Mesh
This is a Duplicate How can I convert a complex point cloud to mesh? by Harry McKenzie
This is a showcase of a Point Cloud turned into a Mesh.
This is not the Solution, which i'm not willing to ...
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Do these challenge like things still exist?
So basically I stumbled upon this post: What's the fastest and / or craziest way to model an arrow in Blender?
Also this one: What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
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Is there data available on the amount of questions posted over time?
I've noticed that the amount of questions posted on BSE has sky rocketed. That's implying a sudden rise in the interest in Blender? If I'm not mistaken, the first ever question on BSE was posted 10 ...
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Concerning third-party addons and question closing
I myself and other people have voted to close topics (such as this one or that one) for being about how to use a third-party addon for Blender. Yet sometimes we still do answer such questions to our ...
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Why do people edit, but not leave comments?
I have seen some people edit posts but not leave a comment where necessary. For example; a newcomer on this site might have asked a question which contains a lot of grammatical error. But this ...
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List of posts containing AI-generated text
In the recent discussions about AI:
Should posts generated with the help of AI be marked as AI-generated content?
How to warn users about AI generated content?
I use an argument, that I have yet to ...
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How to warn users about AI generated content?
While it seems still undetermined if AI-generated posts on BSE are outright banned, should be marked as such or no action is needed:
Should posts generated with the help of AI be marked as AI-...
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We're turning 10 this year. Happy birthday to all!
Posted a few days too late but, Blender Stack Exchange just turned 10 years old seven days ago.
May 22 2013, the date of the earliest question ever posted on Blender stack exchange.
A question about ...
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Blender Stack Exchange now requires all users to be registered before posting
This is not really a question, more of community announcement.
Due to the recent spam wave that is currently affecting several sites of the Stack Exchange network, we decided to request that as of ...
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New tag for Simulation-nodes?
Now that Simulation Nodes are here. Should we create a new tag called simulation-nodes like we have for geometry-nodes?
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Should posts generated with the help of AI be marked as AI-generated content?
As a moderator (and user) of this platform, I increasingly recognize a disturbing development that makes me think about what actions should be taken in order not to reduce the credibility and quality ...
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Community bot closes for the wrong reasons
This is in regards to https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/292724 , which is already closed, so maybe some folks can't see it.
This question quickly gathered a lot of downvotes. Community bot ...
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Upload images in comments [duplicate]
How do I upload an image from desktop to this site to reply on a comment?
Can someone share the steps and share the necessary links?
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Should fixing AI generated Python scripts be off-topic?
Should questions like this be off-topic?
I think this is not really a suitable type of a question for Stack Exchange.
It seems to me that the idea of Stack Exchange is to share knowledge, but in a ...
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What means bold in the achievement button?
For the first time, I see this:
For which reason "blender axis to angle" is in bold? What does it mean?
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Can you delete a Blend Exchange file after is has been uploaded?
I might have a question I would like to ask on blender stack exchange but I feel to get the best answer it would be beneficial to upload my blend file in its entirety. This question could be ...
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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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