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What is the process for creating gifs for questions and answers?
The recording software
The top two are by far the most used (on this site):
LICEcap Windows and OSX installer
GifCam Windows only, but no install (yay)
ScreenToGif Newer app, looks very good, ...
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Why does no one vote?
I certainly have, and in the past have said that more people should vote.
I 100% agree that as a whole our site should be voting more.
However, I can not agree with your reasons for UVing or DVing.
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David♦ Moderator resignation
Thank you for your meticulous tag management.
Thank you for your tireless review queue sweeps.
Thank you for your steadfast flag handling.
You poured so much energy into keeping the cogs of this ...
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Wow... here, I feel I give a great/complete answer, but.. the OP does not react
Think of the OP as your immediate target, then the rest of the blender users in the world.
At first the reaction will be from the OP, over time more people will see it, and you very likely will get ...
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Funny Questions #2
I saw this story made in MS paint, how to do it in blender?
One fine day the colorful hills of Stackexchangia were just as calm
and peaceful as always.
Tardises were making, Novices ...
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Why does no one vote?
Speaking for myself I don't upvote question very often. It's not because I'm bitter, or in some personal vendetta to withhold points from other users; nor because I don't read them or don't care. I ...
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A goodbye to the community - iKlsR Moderator Resignation
Wow.
From someone who was there when the site was just starting to walk (admittedly I arrived at bit late, 587 users after you), I can personally attest that its impossible to overstate the effort ...
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UPDATED (December 24) Blender site design
I like this a lot. Here's my quick feedback
CC
At the core of 3d, we work with raw polygons, everything seems too round, logo (I slightly prefer the original here), ask button etc
The header seems a ...
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Downvote Flagging
Short answer: nope.
You will probably never see a "flag the DV" type of thing for a number of reasons.
All votes up or down, are completely anonymous. So it is not as if a mod could do anything to a ...
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UPDATED (December 24) Blender site design
STATUS UPDATE [12/17/15]
Hello everyone. This is Courtny again. I wanted to provide a quick update on status.
Overall, the community has some excellent feedback that I believe will make the design ...
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Blender site design: Captcha / 404 / Error page - input needed!
Captcha
For the Captcha page I envision a picture of Proog from elephants dream, redrawn in a style similar to world building's awesome new site design. Direct link to the poster.
Elephants dream was ...
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What to do with really short answers?
I would say the best thing to do is a DV. By all means leave a comment asking them to expand on their answer; but low quality content should be DVed (that is how the sorting process works to always ...
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Source code questions in 2016
Surprised that internal code questions are considered off-topic. Seems like drawing the line at the python api is pretty thin.
I support the suggestion, here's why.
I agree with all the pros, ...
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Question put long or short preferred?
Even the most mundane detail or seemingly non-related action can help you get a concrete reply (installed program X yesterday etc) as opposed to commented suggestions and followup questions so I'd ...
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Why is this website designed so horribly?
First of all, if you have a question about using Blender as defined in the help center, then please ask a question.
Please be on topic, there is a comprehensive list of things that are off topic that ...
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UPDATED (December 24) Blender site design
I'm so happy this moment is finally here!
Having already expressed my initial enthusiasm for the design, I'll jump straight to the nit-picking ;)
My 2¢
Header imagery
I agree with iKlsR's comment ...
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Old duplicate, poor problem description and no helpful answers
Thanks for asking on meta :)
I'd say yes, it is definitely fine to post a new question.
The main purpose of closing duplicates to redirect information on one topic to one place, but if the ...
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Why my Question is Downvoted?
I think I was the first to downvote the question and at that time immediately commented clarifying the vote.
I downvoted this question, because it shows no research. I simple web search gives me ...
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Professional Way vs. Getting the image?
If you have a valid solution, you should always be welcome to post an answer.
The goal of StackExchange is to give people answers. This includes not only the original asker of the question, but ...
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