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What questions should be definitely off-topic?
Obviously questions not about Blender would be off-topic but what should be the general yardstick for off-topicness?
Update:
Since the site has moderators now and we can better address on/off-...
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How to post gifs on this site?
Most replies to my comments have "gif" images. How do I put them in my posts? Adding a new image doesn't work.
Also, this will help with asking questions because I always need to show examples.
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Button to insert <kbd></kbd> for users
I come across a lot of posts which lack proper hotkey formatting: any key
And I change it to: AnyKey
It would save me 11 keystrokes per ...
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What is the process for creating gifs for questions and answers?
We now have over 1600 posts with gifs in them, gifs are very popular and useful; however it seems that they can be hard to create.
I have read placing .gifs in text and How to post gifs on this site?, ...
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Regarding questions and answers as tutorials
Since I proposed the list of possible topics that should be off-topic, it seems it has been well received and people are working with it. However, there have been several discussions in chat, numerous ...
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Beginner's Reference
Update:
Since this post is less likely to be seen by visitors to the site and is technically not what meta is for (we were working on the kinks at the time), there is now a community maintained wiki ...
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Announcing: Blend-exchange a new solution to .blend hosting
Announcing:
For a long time now .blend hosted on pasteall.org have been disappearing, after 5 months. Although good answers and questions shouldn't need .blend files, they can be extremely useful to ...
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How do I ask a question that is hard to describe?
I'm new to Blender and I ran into a problem, I'm not sure of how to accurately explain my problem. How can I best explain/show the community the issue I'm having to get some help?
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Can we have a service for uploading blendfiles?
Can we have a service for uploading .blend files on the Ask Question page?
This would be useful for many cases, in particular for new users.
Many questions simply need a .blend to describe the ...
gandalf3Mod
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How should be the version tags?
Make it sense to create tags there also include blender as a part of the tag e.g
blender-2.67
Is not be easier/more DRY to create only tags for the version number like ...
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Including a .blend file
How do I put a .blend file in my questions? Thats really all I have to ask, even though I have to fit a certain amount of characters.
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Guidelines on the usage of StackExchange Markup and style
The basics are explained in formatting help, but perhaps for sake of homogeneity we can adopt a style guide concerning conventions with examples of how to and not to mark-up content.
Well established ...
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Blender site design ideas - input welcome!
First, congratulations on the upcoming graduation of your site!
My name is Kurtis, and I'm the Stack Exchange team member who will be working on the design for your graduated site.
I've read your ...
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Custom off-topic close reasons: 2014 in review
The last new off-topic reason here was added on January 14, 2014 - one year ago today. So now is a good time to review how these have been used over the past year, and consider if changes are ...
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How can I optimize images and screenshots that I embed in my post?
Uploading 1MB images or even 300KB images in a question or answer is often unnecessary/overkill and slows down page loads significantly especially when viewing on a mobile connection.
Similarly, ...
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Duplicate answer vs duplicate question
I have noticed several instances where a question has been closed as a duplicate of another question when the two questions have the same answer, but aren't really the same question. A recent example ...
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New contest format proposal
We tried contests (Add contests on blender exchange), however after the first one we didn't get many entries.
It seemed to me that there was interest, but people didn't have enough time to put ...
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Source code questions in 2016
Source code questions. Back in the day, we decided to put these questions outside our scope for a variety of reasons.
Now that we've graduated and matured more as a site, perhaps now is the time to ...
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What is the problem with posting an image (or link) and asking “How do I do this?”
What is the problem with asking
“How do I fix this?”
"How do I do this in blender?"
"why is this happening"
or
"Go to this link and tell me how to do it" ?
user1853
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Micro Editing, does everything need to be perfect?
How do we decide if we should really go ahead with editing that nagging mistake in someone else's post? Is it OK to edit subtle grammatical mistakes, or typos?
Stack Exchange has this built in rule ...
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What should our custom off-topic close reasons be?
Custom close reasons have been live for a while now. We currently have 2 of the (3) given in use but a recent surge in questions being closed has prompted the need for a few more that are more ...
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Featured image contest revisited
We've discussed having a photo.se style continuous contest to provide a "featured render" for display on the main site before, but now that we are graduating it's time to see about making this happen.
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Should we expand our scope to allow simple howtos?
Should we expand the scope of this site to allow some simple "how to" questions?
This question was a recent example of the kind of question that could be allowed.
To give another example of ...
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Policy for linking to blend files
Sometimes its so much easier to give a blend file as an example, or to give a blend file as part of an answer.
I think in some ways using blend files goes against the notion of having a concise text (...
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Styling for GUI instructions
With a graphical application like Blender, answers often require instructions that include navigating the interface. The standards recommend using <kbd> for ...
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How should the site look?
What kind of color scheme and style should the site have?
Should it be similar to blender's UI and default theme?
Should it look like other blender related sites?
E.g.
Blender.org
BlenderNation.com
...
gandalf3Mod
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What to do with questions which have been answered in comments?
I occasionally see questions which have been answered in the comments, but the poster has not responded to requests to post an answer, or only has a partial answer.
For example:
Problem rendering a ...
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General 3D Graphics
After seeing How can we ensure Blender.SE doesn't share 3DGraphics.SE's fate?
Are questions regarding general, or theoretic, 3D concepts on-topic?
e.g.
Best lighting for a specific set
How ...
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What to do with questions based on links once the links have expired?
Some questions are based on links to files and images hosted in external sites. Once those links disappear the question no longer makes sense.
Here's an example: Setting parent to armature with ...
user1853
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Things to address with Stack Exchange upon graduation?
Our site is wonderful, and I love it, but I'm sure we all realize that it could be improved greatly! Now that SE is going to develop a custom design for us (Which will be soon, they have $40 million) ...
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Should all "Ask A Question" pages encourage the poster to upload their blend?
Should the "Ask A Question" page encourage the poster to upload their blend and also provide a means to do so? So often we have to ask OP to post their blend somewhere, but I think it'd save OP & ...
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Funny Questions #1
NEW CONTEST - FUNNY QUESTIONS -
The rules of this contest are simple
Write a funny question as an answer to this post. Put the title of that question following a #.
You may use plays on words, you ...
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How do we promote our site?
We recently entered public beta and while it's still very early, our stats are a bit lacking compared to what they could be, they could at least correlate with the number of users. At the time of ...
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Where to upload .blend files - non-expiring links
People can upload their blend files to various site such as pasteall, google drive, and dropbox. The problem with these file hosts is that:
pasteall: links expire after 5 months
dropbox/drive: upload ...
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Can we please reconsider allowing Q&A regarding Blender build problems?
I posted this question on building Blender and was kindly informed that it's off-topic and I should direct my question to either blenderartists.org or #blendercoders.
Quote:
Reason being, there is ...
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What would be wrong with tutorials as long as they describe a reusable workflow?
First bullet point in What questions should be definitely off-topic? is :
Requests for tutorials
Can anyone show me how to model/rig/animate X?
Can anyone make a tutorial on doing X?
although I ...
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What case should letters inside <kbd> tags be?
What case should letters inside <kbd> tags be?
e.g.
⎈ ctrlr
⎈ CtrlR
⎈ CTRLR
Any there any advantages or disadvantages to different ...
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Funny Questions #2
- FUNNY QUESTIONS ARE BACK -
The rules of this contest are simple
Write a funny question as an answer to this post. Put the title of that question following a #.
You may use plays on words, you may ...
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How can we ensure Blender.SE doesn't share 3DGraphics.SE's fate?
For those not in the know, an older, now defunct 3d graphics.SE never made it out of private beta.
What can we do to make sure Blender.SE has the best chance of at least making it out of private beta?...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Cleaning up our custom close reasons
For a long time our close reasons have been wanting of attention.
We've just now gotten around to making a few changes:
Bug reports
We've decided to change the wording of this close reason, as it ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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What can we do to reduce the misuse of the 'blender-render' tag?
In my opinion the blender-render tag has become problematic.
This tag has become (or always has been) one of the most misused tags we have. People are adding this tag to new questions simply because ...
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How should we handle questions about features not yet in Blender?
Currently, there are several questions on the main site that ask about features not yet in Blender, either planned, broken or not documented. How should we handle these type of questions, most of them ...
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Off topic "other stack exchange network "-- limited options why?
is there any merrit to having a new more options in that list, like :
SuperUser.stackexchange
Graphicdesign.stackexchange
Photography.stackexchange
stackoverflow
this is extra step seems so useless ...
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placing .gifs in text
I have read how to post gifs on this site, but I can't get that to work for me. I tried using Gfycat and everytime I try and upload the images I get an error saying ...
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Editing questions to remove "thank you" etc
"Any help would be much appreciated" "Thanks in advance" etc. Should we remove them from questions, or just leave them? I know there are other meta post on this topic Should 'Hi', 'thanks&#...
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How can I insert videos into my Q&A?
Some people give visual appealing answers with a video/gif.
I saw that those link to i.stack.imgur.com. How can I use that service to automatically transform my blender screencasts (avi jpg) into ...
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Where is the "Include your .blend" button?
I have to say the GiantCowFilms services are really amazing. It seems they are "official BSE .blend cloud", at least from my point of view (orthographic?). The ability to post a .blend file, link it ...
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Canonical posts for hardware questions?
As stated in Answering vague support questions (once)?, we should consider having some "canonical posts" for some hardware posts.
Some examples of topics which might benefit from a canonical post:
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