I think that's about the best you can do

Though if you can throw some light on why xyz is the answer, you might write it up as an answer of your own (often the OP is still in the dark and/or doesn't give any explanation beyond "it worked")

On the personal attacks... apologies I will pull my head in. Need to stop checking the voting record of users as it disappoints me no end. Considering a rant on the "why does no one vote meta" or a "do i vote too much" question

@gandalf3 If they answer themselves and edit question can UV both, then they can vote is my take on this. (oops getting on the no voting soapbox again)

hehe

I mean, it's understandable that the users who hang about looking for questions to answer are going to be in the minority; most who come by are looking to solve their own problem. I'm actually pretty impressed at how many people stick around and try and answer even just a few questions as well

Also there's like a 15 reputation minimum for voting (iirc), so often super new users can't vote

to "avoid gaming the system"

IMO would rejig the CoC

In some ways I like how reddit does it, where they hide all the anti-vote-gaming machinery behind the scenes so it at least feels like your vote counts

It makes the vote counts less useful though

HNQ surely makes the vote counts less usefull

my "best" answer is adding a font arrow.

(votewise)

lol

You can see if it's still the best after you normalize by views

what I consider my best answers have at best 1 or 2 votes

as mentioned previously if you start looking at voting behaviour some is gobsmacking

The other one that gets my goat is ignorance. Where you get 0 votes 0 comments, then they're onto the next question using my answer... .. moving into rant mode lol

yeah.. I feel like we should have a room where we link posts where stuff like that happens so other users can inform them about accepting and upvoting (always feels weird to me to do it on my own answer)

This is what I would like to see re CoC sure keep the be nice to new contributors, but seems there is nothing prodding them on how site works.. eg "thankyou for this answer, works perfectly" comment ... no accept no votes. I recall you mentioned you don't like "begging" for votes, feel the same. Perhaps it is a necessary evil.

There are quite a few little prompts like that, but they don't seem 100% effective

I know there's at least one suggesting you accept when you upvote and don't accept

Which seems ass about.

If you accept why not upvote. Whereas (to me) upvoting someone who has taken time to answer seems like good manners. Accept the best answer when it is apparent.

I would change system to let multiple answers be accepted.

As unfortunately the big green tick brings it into the realm of right and wrong.. philosophically

@batFINGER That would sort of make it moot, would it not?

Why not just accept them all :P

And those that aren't accepted would the the "unacceptable"... prob arguing semantics here... "preferred" would be my preferred nomenclature.

has blend-exchange gone down?

hmmm

@GiantCowFilms help

Looks down here as well

see what happens when people don't vote enough

:P

It's one of those days....

T_T

Migration to cloudflare nameservers.

Cloudflare didn't copy over all the A records from my DNS Zone file.

RIP subdomains

ah

@GiantCowFilms how many .blends does BE have now?

@Scalia 5800

That number isn't rounded. I ran the query and that is what came out

Wow

@gandalf3 I will second that (and stared it). I am guilty of that from time to time. we all really should be careful, and think twice before bashing a post.

@gandalf3 Oh I can absolutely see that point of view. When I first joined Sci-Fi, they closed my first question. I deleted it and never went back to that site for a very, very long time.

I think the captcha on my contact form has stopped working.

I am getting over 9000 level sketchy spam.

lookie here I made an ad!

@GiantCowFilms I hope you dont mean you got 9000 messages

No, but the ones I do get are supppper sketchy

post a screen cap of some of the best.

Most would violate what is allowed to be posted here.

But I will find some samples that are not offensive

dont spend too long on it. its not important. I was just curious.

@GiantCowFilms 100% totally legit. :) I mean do they really get people to click through those?

A lot of scammers target less than lucid elderly people.

also:

@GiantCowFilms sending email is cheep. so if even .0001% click through you still make something.

Exactly

anyway. like the ad?

anything that should be different?

@David Ooh, nice!

Perhaps a little more explanation wouldn't hurt (I suspect quite a few users aren't that aware of the open movies)

@gandalf3 I had more lines of text, but it detracted from the look.

Understandable

a little mystery to drive views is not a bad thing :)

It's not that important, the point is to get clicks after all :P

exactly

@David THE NEXT OPEN MOVIE WILL AMAZE YOU

Top 10 Open Movies that the credit card companies don't want you to know

aka, clickbait.

@Xthefluffy27unicorn no. just no.

#10 Will shock you

yep XD

#6 will be made in Blender

better yet. you make one like that, and we will let the voting decide which is better.

and #12 is a partridge in a pear tree

@gandalf3 lol

#9 is the only one which has anything to do with the thumbnail, the rest is filler to get the video over 10 minutes.

does spring have a fruit code name?

no idea

Good question

It sure better..... it just wouldn't be a proper open movie without a fruity disguise.

odd this is the first one that was not readily known by the code name.

star something else (so gandalf3's #3 is third.)

\o/

:)

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wow I killed your multi line guy.

T_T

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huh?

Was supposed to be a reentry module. But NOOOOOOOOO the chat's idiotic anti-spam auto-formatting ruined it.

looks fine to me

ok now I get it.

would be a better fit in space.se's chat room

Well if it's not re-entering it's not in space is it

:P

random meme :)

@Xthefluffy27unicorn lol

and then send it to space!

They already installed HAL as well

hold on, first it needs to come through my tunnel.

Now just to attempt no landings on Europa and ignite Jupiter

I don't like waiting in traffic. So I dug a tunnel under the city

With two stars, you can charge the batteries with solar power at all times

It's the perfect plan

That is a perfect plan! We can build a giant solar farm in space, then Elon can use his re-usable rockets to carry batteries back and fourth!

genius!

@Xthefluffy27unicorn but how will amazon's delivery drones fly through the tunnels?

errrr... don't think that was ever in the plan

@Xthefluffy27unicorn call me the spoil sport, but I'm seeing some issues with that plan.

They make their own tunnels duh

Yes! Obviously the Amazon drones dig their own tunnels.

speedy delivery

On-demand hyperloop technology™

@gandalf3 hmm. so the FAA would not give permission quick enough. so they switched to auto delivery tunnel drones. A bit more costly, and will take a few decades to roll out, but the FAA can't stop you underground!

I mean there is the issue with literal snail mail being faster than tunneling machines.... but other than that it is a great plan!

5D chess

anyone want to mock up a dji phantom with a tunneling drill on the front? :)

That reminds me of one of the first things I ever sculpted.

O.o

Looks pretty cool actually

Yes, that creature has exhaust pipes. deal with it.

@Xthefluffy27unicorn lets just stop and think about that sentence for a bit "that creature has exhaust pipes."

this is some next level sifi stuff

I mean, I wasn't going to mention it, but most creatures do have something along the lines of exhaust pipes..

Ewww.... the "exhaust" that comes out of most creatures is pretty smelly...

but "fart pipes" doesn't have the same ring to it....

wow

It'd be cooler if they were jets, squid style

ohh, yes! That would help with propulsion under water :)

and you were worried about first impressions of new users. </jk>

xD

the whole idea behind that big guy was that he could fly, walk, drill, and swim.

What do the wings do when drilling?

And I'm pretty sure its diet consisted entirely of watermellons.

I mean, the wingspan kind of exceeds the drill-span

oh, the wings just fold back like any bird would.

perfect for amazon's delivery. you can get a package no matter where you are. Even under water!

ah, fair enough

Huh. He can do lots, but he doesn't have a cargo box.

It would be kinda messy if he ate the packages and then pooped them out for delivery XD

this is just going down hill, or down a hole.

@Xthefluffy27unicorn most of the packages we order already arrive in a state that makes you think they were eaten and pooped.

creature with exhaust pipes.. kind of reminds me of Half Life 2 synth

Cool mockup, Amazon is going to hire you. In the meantime receiving packages will turn into a horrifying parade of nightmarish bizarre delivery slave creature