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Are 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) they are probably going to be as willing as ever to make the changes that we need. What are chan...

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?

There is a class of questions we get, which are perfectly valid - but the answer but boils down to: Blender can't do that. Often answers try to show workaround or some way to export to some external tool to perform the operation, but they are often unsatisfactory solutions. The thing about t...

I am fairly new to Blender, I am comfortable with it but nowhere near the skill level I want to be at. I just learn on Youtube and on my own. If you could give me your opinion on the best way and/or how you learned that would be great. I am also new to this forum/website/whatever, so if this isn...

I often notice people using the code snippet formatting for many more things than showing code, often just to emphasize things. And it can be quite annoying reading a post in which every other word is put in a gray, monospace font (see what I mean?). Is there a way to encourage people to only u...

As pointed out in Custom off-topic close reasons: 2014 in review, we appear to have very little site documentation about things like what you can ask about and how best to ask about it. As a matter of fact, the only b.se specific thing I've seen in the help center is this: Blender Stack Exch...

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 something together in their spare time in-between answering questions ;). At least that was what happe...

After waiting couple hours for an answer to a question I posted on the Blender site, I found the answer myself and decided to post it. During that process, I was asked a pointed question ("do you really want to do this"). I thought answering your own question is not only possible but encouraged...

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 necessary. I pulled together some basic information to further this discussion: Off-topic reasons Activ...

This question appears to be off-topic because it is a bug report and not an actual question. These should be reported to Blender's tracker instead. Emphasis mine We usually close questions which were asked buggy behavior as bug reports, regardless of whether or not the question was not phra...

How can I link to a specific answer on a question, such that when the link is followed it scrolls down to the answer? I have seen this done and know how to do it for comments (simply click on the date posted) but have not figured out how for an answer.

Contest: Imagination This is your opportunity to depart from reality a little. The goal of this competition is to spark your imagination and creativity, and to be a fun departure from more 'serious' works. Objective: Create an imaginary world using non-photorealistic rendering techniques You ...

Looking through old questions I have com across many dead links. There seams to me no real consensus across the SE network as to what should be done with dead links. I have read many questions (1,2,3) about dead links and they say: just leave a comment; or edit the post to update the link. Flaggi...

Do we need the directories tag? Should we wait for a while and see if it gets used in a useful way?

A while ago I suggested a versions tag. The idea seemed to be agreed with, but it was decided to merge it with the existing builds tag. I agree that the tags overlap to the point of being the same thing and should be one tag, however I think versions would be a better name, simply because build...

Are requests on how to simulate certain materials (e.g. asphalt, ice, water, etc.) on topic here? We've had questions like this before which seemed to have been received well, e.g. How To Create a Matte Car Paint Material? How to make a bronze material in Cycles? Making a multi-colored candy ...

On the main site,my questions never get down voted. However you need a down vote,and then an up vote on the same day to earn a hat. Being already stated that my questions are never down voted, how is it possible to earn this hat?

I've been having tones of fun with the hats! But I have a complaint: There is no way to show off how many hats I have Even more irksome I have to go into people profiles to see if they have more hats than me, which means I have to go in and out of pages. Why not display a hat count with the ba...

My question is simply that, what are secret hats? I have seen many users with hats not listed in the winter bash page, the hats' description say “this is a secret hat”. In fact most of the what's I have seen so far are secret hats, what does this mean?

I have a question here, about locking the elbow joint when using forward kinematics. How to lock elbow rotation (forward kinematics) So, I also want to ask the same question with inverse kinematics. With minor edits and a modified screenshot (out of 3) the two questions would look very similar....

I know how to program somewhat well, but am completely new to Blender. I need to use Blender to generate some geometry, and had a bit of a tough time finding tutorials that give me the quickest (i.e. not the most in-depth) route to get going with some simple modelling using Python. This is some...

Contest: Mechanics 3D artists always enjoy rendering impressive, shiny machines, from robots to complex vehicles. But often times they wouldn't work in the real world. Objective: Create a machine that is mechanically functional. You can use any method you want, as long as you use Blender for...

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 is how to fix “object has no uniform scale”?, the question marked as its duplicate is Why is it ...

Are unanswered questions falling to the bottom off the list? Is there a way to put the question on top off the list?

Contest: Crazy Firepower The two most modeled tings in blender are shiny cars and awesome guns. Here we are going to expand a little and make any type of weapon. It can be anything, from a rugged battle axe, to a powerful scy-fi cannon. It can be an existing weapon, or something totally new. It ...

I have noticed that many edits by moderators are to change keystrokes like CTRL + A to the proper Ctrl+A format. Should information on how to properly use key command formatting be included i.e. on the tour page, or even when trying to post your first question? I know it took me a very long t...

For those new to the site. StackExchange has a little winter themed event in December for sites to participate in called Winter Bash. Basically, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (similar to badges). Certain actions would trigger the user receiving a hat, whi...

I have noticed that one of the most common first comments on a question is something like “What render engine are you using?”. My question is simply this, is there anyway to remind people to put the render engine in the tags? Some kind of note like “Please be sure that if your question has anyt...

What case should letters inside <kbd> tags be? e.g. ⎈ ctrlr ⎈ CtrlR ⎈ CTRLR Any there any advantages or disadvantages to different styles? Should we try to maintain a consistent style across the site, in keeping with the wiki nature of SE?

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 This isn't an animated gif, so I am wondering. How do you all out there record and save them? As I recorded it, used Premiere Pro to...

If you haven't already, read this Uncyclopedia article about Blender. Just about everyone has been there - the Level One Noob; And if you haven't you probably know about someone who has. There was a time at the start, when you first opened Blender, probably, when you would praise the Suzzane dei...

Isnt therea bit of bringing your own Personality into the question ? i mean is it really that important to have cold not individual question formulations ? Revision because of Grammar is okay but removing a have a good day and caling it "deleting the extra stuff" seems a bit to Harsh in my Eyes.

For example: Why the blender browser plugin is not updated? Why blender is not saving used Images These questions ask things about the design choices and decisions involved in making blender to which probably only the developers can give a complete answer. I know that this probably is out of...

In light of our recent event aiming to improve our answer ratio. I think it would be a good idea to consider adding contests to blender.stackexchange.com. The stackexchange site Code golf has a 9.5 answer ratio. That answer ratio is more attainable, we already have more daily visits then that sit...

My question was marked as [duplicate] by several users, and there were some helpful comments, and I've edited it to help clarify what I need to understand beyond the answer to the related question. However now the original comments are not visible to me. Are they gone? Thanks!

I've asked a question and I've received an answer, but then the author deleted the answer. Can I see the reason for deletion?

Often new users will upload screenshots to e.g. dropbox, instead of embedding in the post. If embedded in the post via the button in the toolbar, SE will upload the image from the existing host to the default imgur host. This takes the image out of the OP's control, e.g. they can no longer delet...

Are questions asking for a specific theme or type of theme on-topic? For example, this question: What is this grey theme seen on the gooseberry website? GD.SE has font-identification questions which are similar, but they probably get more font identification questions than we ever will get in th...

If a "better" version of a old question, in which direction should they be closed? Should the newer question be closed as a duplicate of the older question (and perhaps the older question should be edited)? Or should the older question be closed as a duplicate of the newer question? For exampl...

I have seen many questions that have no official answer, but have been answered and the problem solved from a suggestion in the comments (such as this one I recently answered controling the size of the cloth). Should questions like that be answered as an official answer, or just left the way they...

My question is if someone can ask to many questions on this site or are they allowed to ask as many questions as they want?

I tried to suggest a synonym, but I still need 5 score on a tag. Which tag needs to have more score? units or blender-units? Perhaps the phrasing of this error could be clarified to specify which tag doesn't meet the requirements?

Change #1 I have come across many questions that deal with units, the latest one here. I propose we change blender-units to be units. It would fit a broader spectrum of questions, and some that are already tagged as blender-units are really not about blender-units. Change #2 We delete actuators...

For example, this question: How to use the golden spiral composition rule. These are already allowed for general CG/modeling questions. One could argue that composition is a part of CG, but on the other hand composition also applies to lots of non-CG art forms too. Are these kinds of questions ...

I have noticed several questions lately about texture baking that have used the [baking] tag instead of [texture-baking]. The tag wikis make sufficient difference between the two: Baking tag wiki: Baking is the act of pre-computing something in order to speed up some other process later dow...

I have edited many questions and answers to change spelling. Do we have a standard about how words are to be spelled, that are differently in different parts of the world? Example: Color and Colour (and many more I can't think of now.) I ask because if we allow multiple spellings of a word, th...

Today we had repeated downvotes on one anwer to this question how to lock object face a certain distance away from another object face? Do we have a way to avoid this? If I remember right this: Proposed new code of conduct for all Stack Exchange sites appeared on Blender.SE in the 'Hot Meta P...

Many of our tags are aimed at covering broad, general categories, rather than using more, specific tags of limited scope. For example, we have modifiers instead of array-modifier, mirror-modifier subsurf-modifier, etc. file-format instead of obj, fbx, collada, etc. Is this good or bad? Wo...

When I posted an answer for someones question: http://blender.stackexchange.com/posts/16530/revisions I got marked in my grammar for these key box's here. they look nifty, but, because I'm new, I don't know how to use them. could someone clarify please?

Sometimes questions which seem overly simple are downvoted, such as How do I select an object in the 3D viewport? and How to retrieve the objects of a group. While answers to these questions can most likely be found very easily if the OP knew where to look, or knew what keywords to put in a sear...