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"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | Ask about recommendation
I know that here at SE I cant ask recommendation of products and so. I have a printer that I wanna buy and I want to know if it's good. Where should I post this question in order to get some smart people to take a look?
Great question! 3DPrinting SE attracts a lot of new Stack Exchange network... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.624932 | 2017-06-22T20:02:48 | 236 | {
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"include_comme... | Stack Exchange | Should we start a 3D Printing BLOG?
Do we want to add a BLOG to this site?
Blogs are another way of communicating things that don't fit the Q&A model.
Here is a good description of what a Blog is and how you can start one.
This post on the SuperUser Blog asking for help with their Blog is helpful too.
+1 - As it seems... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.625504 | 2020-02-29T14:15:31 | 474 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://cr... | Stack Exchange | Tag Rename: lcdscreen -> lcd-screen
to make reading tags easier, I propose to swap lcdscreen to lcd-screen, in line with x-axis and others.
Makes sense to me. @0scar should be able to easily make the change, if he wants to.
For better readability, the tag has been updated to include a hyphen: lcd-screen.
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2025-03-21T12:54:35.625681 | 2020-12-26T14:38:01 | 497 | {
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"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | What do we do about "Does Anybody do/have X?"?
"Does anybody" questions are, to me, a sign of especially poor writing: They ask about mere existence, and then the answer always can be yes, as there will be one experimental setup that did exactly that.
But it is impossible to prove a negative, so such questions stay una... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.625894 | 2017-11-25T03:46:04 | 252 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://crea... | Stack Exchange | Software Suggestion Question
I am wondering if my question is going to be on-topic.
I am having trouble finding software that is native to linux that can cut STL models in to smaller models for printing properly. Is asking for help finding software that can do this, or asking for help with some software that I have fo... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.626102 | 2019-07-13T13:41:32 | 421 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://c... | Stack Exchange | Delete mistaken post
Can somebody please delete this question as it is useless as it stands, and I am apparently not allowed to do it myself.
Can you join @0scar in [chat] as he seems to have an answer. I can delete it if you really want but it might be better to discuss/explain first to avoid confusion and people tak... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.626351 | 2019-08-16T23:04:53 | 428 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://c... | Stack Exchange | Is photogrammetry and 3D scanning on-topic?
Photogrammetry (3D models from photos/videos) and 3D scanning (like structured light and ToF) are popular ways of obtaining a 3D model for printing.
Is the discussion of those techniques on-topic here?
3D scanning should be on topic, it depends upon the question, I guess. Se... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.626568 | 2018-03-10T23:27:20 | 257 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1237... | Stack Exchange | Tag Request for 3D Printing: [Fusion360] tag
I think that there should be a Fusion360 tag. It would be useful for Fusion360-related questions. I was making a question about Fusion360, but then I realized that there was not a Fusion360 tag. There is a TinkerCAD tag, which is a similar CAD system, but no Fusion360 tag. P... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.626823 | 2018-10-22T12:54:33 | 357 | {
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"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | Are shopping questions on topic for the site?
On other Stack sites it is quite common for purchasing assistance and shopping ideas to be off topic. The reason being these types of questions become outdated very quickly as technology changes, a store goes out of business, or a product is no longer available.
When looki... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.627255 | 2019-02-01T21:11:38 | 384 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/13813... | Stack Exchange | Advertising on other SE sites: 2019 Version
It is open season for posting ads on other sites. It might be a good idea to take advantage of this to help 3dPrinting.SE grow. I'm wondering what everyone might think about it?
If it does interest you, please post up an answer to this question with where you might think woul... |
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/... | Stack Exchange | Tag synonym: support & support-structures
We have two tags: support & support-structures
These two are essentially the same thing. Even the abbreviated tag-wikis are pretty much saying the same thing. IMHO, we should combine the two tags as they are superfluous.
There was the Meta question: support-material / support... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.628654 | 2019-07-16T20:07:25 | 423 | {
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"htt... | Stack Exchange | 2019 Community Moderator Election Results
3D Printing's First Pro-Tem moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.629070 | 2020-01-18T22:17:09 | 472 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.sta... | Stack Exchange | Drones and Model Aircraft Site proposal
I'm the creator of the "Drones and Model Aircraft" SE site proposal. Aside from reaching the requirement for >100 committers with >200 reputation, we are doing very well.
Since our communities have a lot in common with all of the 3D printing I know takes place in the model aircr... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.629487 | 2018-10-19T11:19:51 | 354 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativ... | Stack Exchange | Sharing advice on how to print materials?
I found this previous question about sharing settings and, while I agree that there are no 'best settings' because it depends on your printer, and sometimes the model being printed, I think we can still help people by posting some generic advice and indications for settings.
I ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.630196 | 2020-01-06T20:42:59 | 467 | {
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"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | So it looks like [tag:e3d-hermes] should be changed to [tag:e3d-hemera]
Without going into the specifics (because I don't know them) E3D got into a bit of hot water with the name of their new Hermes extruder and determined that just renaming the extruder to Hemera would make life easier. Is there a way to change e3d-he... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.630492 | 2019-02-06T02:11:25 | 389 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativ... | Stack Exchange | Is it OK to ask about companies that make 3D printers or related products?
It appears that the manufacturer of my 3D Printer may have gone belly up. Can I ask about that in the 3D Printing site?
This could be valuable information for others too, certainly if it is hard to find that the have gone bankrupt. Usually, in... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.630757 | 2020-03-10T17:24:06 | 476 | {
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"include_commen... | Stack Exchange | How does one provide input to this page?
Updating Marlin Firmware - Step by Step Guide
Page asks for step by step updates, but is locked for comments, answers, or edits. How does one help?
You should ask this on meta. I've flagged for it to be moved, so you don't have to do anything except maybe flag for a moderator ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.631090 | 2020-04-19T03:24:29 | 483 | {
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"include_comments":... | Stack Exchange | Am I supposed to be able to vote up twice?
So, recently I was looking at an answer, I clicked on the vote up button because it was good and then noticed I already had. The score changed to 2 and I un vote-upped it. Is this supposed to happen? The answer is here
Remember that you aren't the only one voting on questions... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.631349 | 2022-09-11T14:38:45 | 554 | {
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"include_comments": true,... | Stack Exchange | Am I allowed to ask the correct name for a specific feature?
I'm aware I cannot ask for recommendations and I'm not interested into.
But I'm looking for a specific feature of a 3D printer and since my primary language is not English I'm not sure which is the correct word (or words) to describe such a feature.
My questi... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.631699 | 2024-01-24T04:46:21 | 591 | {
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"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | How to share an stl file?
I have a question about slicing. If I just describe the problem I would expect my question will be closed since the users have no way to reproduce the issue.
Is there a way to share the stl file I'm using?
Maybe share it on pastebin or github? We don't have a specific way to share a whole STL... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.632063 | 2024-09-10T14:13:08 | 607 | {
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"https://3... | Stack Exchange | Shouldn't this question be on another site on SE?
A recent question was asked when the user said that they were creating a model to 3D print. But the body of the question was mostly about "Crafting Perspex".
Am I mistaken but wouldn't the question be better suited for Arts & Crafts SE since it deals with cutting/shapin... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.632394 | 2023-04-13T13:22:45 | 565 | {
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"include_comment... | Stack Exchange | Do we have a template for a tag excerpt?
Looking through tags, I noticed that there are many different kinds of tags excerpt. A few examples:
For questions about the Creality Ender 3 family of 3D printers
Questions about the 3D printer firmware Marlin.
when a logical or systematic search for the source of a proble... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.633071 | 2021-06-22T13:07:17 | 522 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexcha... | Stack Exchange | Bounty expired, and no answers -- now what?
I put a bounty on this question, because the one answer it had seemed as if the answerer hadn't read the (admittedly long) question.
The bounty just expired, and according to the message, I "must award it to an answer within 24 hours."
Only problem is, there are no answers (t... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.634131 | 2023-11-01T09:54:26 | 577 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://cr... | Stack Exchange | Is everything related to (or for the purpose of) 3D printing such as 3D scanning as well as 3D designing in-scope on this site?
In addition to this: Is photogrammetry and 3D scanning on-topic?
Shouldn't this site be called "3D manufacturing" or something broader? As 3D printing suggest only "printing" and not everythin... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.634787 | 2023-11-22T15:41:13 | 582 | {
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"http... | Stack Exchange | Migrating questions to grow this site into a bigger and more active community?
I'm dissapointed in the size of the active community on this site, considering how long the site has been active (https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/82438/3d-printing) and how mainstream 3D printing is. It's visible on the amount of ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.637744 | 2023-11-21T13:08:04 | 580 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://cr... | Stack Exchange | Merge input-shaping, resonance-compensation and vibration-compensation tags as synonyms
I don't have the needed reputation on this site yet and I didn't seen another option to suggest this, so I'm suggesting it here.
Please make the following tags one, as synonyms:
input-shaping (the Marlin term)
resonance-compensatio... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.638048 | 2023-11-27T13:11:16 | 585 | {
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"include_comment... | Stack Exchange | What is wrong with these suggested edits and why are they rejected?
I'm reviewing my recent suggested edits and don't understand why these five are rejected because:
The edit does not improve the quality of the post. Changes to the content are unnecessary or make the post more confusing
https://3dprinting.stackexcha... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.639630 | 2019-02-04T16:51:03 | 388 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativ... | Stack Exchange | What do we consider Simple/Advanced/Complicated things to fix on a machine and how to tell the asker?
I think we all had this issue in the last years:
As we learn and grow our own knowledge, things we once considered hard become easy.
Now, our answers often address issues that are pretty easy to fix by tweaking simple ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.640653 | 2018-05-24T14:17:56 | 261 | {
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"https://3dprinting.met... | Stack Exchange | Health and Safety?
Recently, a couple of posts have caused concern about the risks involved with the advice given.
This answer, to the question Should I print in a well ventilated area? was recently flagged along with the comment:
The answer seem to suggest that exposure to dangerous fumes may not be dangerous after a... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.640774 | 2018-06-14T17:39:58 | 278 | {
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"https://3dprinting.met... | Stack Exchange | "Best first printer" wiki/blog/closed-question
TL;DR
One thing that I did see was that the closed questions, also seem to get automatically deleted. This is a shame because some of them have interesting/informative answers. So this raises the question that whilst, yeah, close the obvious shopping answers, should the as... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.641222 | 2018-07-06T17:00:02 | 289 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://c... | Stack Exchange | Difference between material and print-material tags
There must be a subtle difference, that I can't quite see, between material and print-material.
The print-material tag clearly states that it is different from material:
Print-material, in comparison to the tag 'material', helps to specify that the question is concer... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.641383 | 2017-05-29T18:35:41 | 226 | {
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"authors": [
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... | Stack Exchange | Is the "inlining videos" capability turned off on this site?
I have just edited a new post, Help understanding bridge settings, so that the video would be "inlined" and playable in the post itself1.
However, the video does not show up, and only the raw link (https://youtu.be/HaeCBru3mOI) is displayed:
This is the ma... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.641736 | 2016-11-27T14:45:32 | 192 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creati... | Stack Exchange | Why are there both [heatbed] and [heated-bed] tags?
I raised a question about heatbed/heated-bed support, Steel versus MDF/Aluminium Y axis plate?, and I noticed that there is not yet a heatbed-support tag, so I used heatbed, and also added heated-bed, just in case.
However, this raises the question why are there both... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.641864 | 2017-02-01T16:40:45 | 215 | {
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"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | Merge [printing-powder] and [metal-powder] tags?
There is a printing-powder and a metal-powder tag.
The respective use of each tag, to date, is as follows:
printing-powder 2
metal-powder 1
One of the printing-powder tagged questions is closed, and the other is also tagged metal-powder, and both questions were about m... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.642050 | 2019-07-01T20:00:00 | 420 | {
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The 2019 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, but this depends on how many candidates there are.
Please visit the official election... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.642130 | 2016-01-12T19:39:07 | 2 | {
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There are many different printing technologies. While it might be clear to the asker that he's talking about his home 3D printing machine, that's not necessarily the case for those that try to answer the question.
I think it would help to specify the scope of... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.642413 | 2022-01-12T17:01:44 | 536 | {
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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 network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:
We designed the Stack ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.642707 | 2024-01-24T20:55:46 | 593 | {
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"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | 2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other site... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.642886 | 2016-01-12T20:14:43 | 5 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/u... | Stack Exchange | How do we handle recommendations?
Stack exchange isn't a good platform for product recommendations in general, but a few sites allow it with a tight focus and control. Some that have allowed it in the past have decided to discontinue it for a variety of reasons.
I expect at the start we are going to get a lot of "What... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.643102 | 2016-01-12T22:38:32 | 21 | {
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"https://3dprintin... | Stack Exchange | Are questions that tangentially involve 3D printing on topic?
It is very easy to ask questions that only tangentially involve 3D printing, such as:
How do I drill a hole in a 3D printed part?
How do I paint 3D printed parts?
How do I sand, smooth, etc...?
How do I take a picture with a 3D printed camera?
My last exam... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.643582 | 2016-01-12T19:24:29 | 1 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.co... | Stack Exchange | What can "newbies" do to help the site at this stage?
I have been wanting to learn about 3D printing a long time so I really want this site to succeed but I have no previous experience with the subject.
I was wondering how can I help the site at this early stage. I thought about asking about how to get started with 3D... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.643860 | 2016-01-19T01:48:12 | 67 | {
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"https://3dp... | Stack Exchange | FDM printer that can also mill and engrave -- what's in scope?
I just got a printer with swappable heads that can do FDM 3d printing, milling, and laser engraving. Presumably questions relating to the first are in scope here; how about the others? Or how about questions about the intersection? For example, a question a... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644079 | 2016-01-24T12:36:52 | 74 | {
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"https://3dprinting... | Stack Exchange | How do we get more traffic to the site?
We have only had activity on 3 questions in the past 2 days. It is recommended that we get 10 new questions per day. This is far below these goals.
What can we do to get more questions?
OK so it has been a year since this was asked. We are still averaging 1.5 questions per da... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644300 | 2016-01-13T13:01:04 | 37 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - http... | Stack Exchange | Tag for taking orders and selling prints
What would be a good tag to use for doing business/making profit with a 3D printer?
Before we start creating tags, would such questions even be on-topic here? Such questions would either be too opinion based (how do I price my models), or the monetization aspect would be irrele... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644392 | 2016-01-15T00:39:58 | 59 | {
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"Se... | Stack Exchange | Fixing the filament tags
We currently have quite a few tags about filament:
filament
plastic-filament
thermoplastic-filament
etc.
I feel like we need to clean these up and make clear what we'll use each tag for.
Thoughts?
Are there any plastics that would not be thermoplastics (that would be used in 3D printing)
Al... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644660 | 2016-01-12T20:34:37 | 8 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/... | Stack Exchange | Are questions discussing printer construction, internals, and firmware on-topic here?
Looking at the highly upvoted area 51 questions, we seem to have a lot of questions focusing on 3D printing from the viewpoint of someone producing items, but a dearth of those discussing actual printer construction, modification, and... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644779 | 2016-01-13T20:12:22 | 50 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/user... | Stack Exchange | Should the "quality" tag be disambiguated?
When asking my first question, I noticed we have a "quality" tag.
I used it to ask about the quality of the 3D printer in my question, but most other uses are about the quality of the prints.
Should we have separate tags, e.g. "printer-quality" and "print-quality"?
"print-qua... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.644935 | 2016-01-13T19:50:33 | 49 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta... | Stack Exchange | What should be the name of our chatroom?
I believe this question is asked on every private Beta... what should be the name of our chatroom?
ahem.. chatroom...
Everyone that visits this post needs to come to the chat room. Really. People need to chat more.
The Hotbed.
Colloquially, "hotbed" generally refers to a cent... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.645077 | 2016-01-12T20:57:39 | 12 | {
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"l... | Stack Exchange | What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
From the The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta:
What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
Imagine you’ve just gotten on an elevator with a friendly stranger. You have precisely one floor to describe your community to them. What would you say? The elevator pitch is a bri... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.645184 | 2016-01-12T22:26:52 | 19 | {
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"https... | Stack Exchange | Plugin for Thingiverse based on API?
Is it realistic or thought neccesary to develop a plugin/feature for this site, to automatically add a small info-box about a thingiverse link? An example of this is Apple's 3D touch technology. In theory, the plugin could recogize thingiverse links in questions and answers, replace... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.645620 | 2016-01-27T22:27:25 | 77 | {
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"https://3dprinting.met... | Stack Exchange | Discussions type: X 3d printer is good? are acceptable
Questions like:
x 3d printer is good?
or
if it is my first printer, which model would you recommend
or
What printer model to buy?
are on-topic?
I think if you ask
I can not do x with my 3d printer, what printer to do x?
Can be on-topic
Those questions don... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.645972 | 2016-01-24T20:18:32 | 76 | {
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"MakerMod... | Stack Exchange | Community Ads! Let's make 2d ads for ourselves!
When 3D Printing moves into public beta, you're going to want to get the word out. And fast! One of the best ways to advertise ourselves across the entire Stack Exchange network is through community ads.
So what are these "Community Ads?"
Graduated sites allow the commun... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.646477 | 2016-01-28T06:06:53 | 79 | {
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... | Stack Exchange | Questions from older beta sites
As you may or may not know, this is the third iteration of a proposal site that covers 3D Printing. The first 2 made it to the beta phase, but did not graduate from the beta successfully:
Digital Fabrication
Personal Manufacturing
Would it be acceptable to extract good/relevant questi... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.646621 | 2018-10-23T12:19:47 | 359 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://c... | Stack Exchange | Renaming the tag [folgertechft-5] to separate company from model
The tag [folgertechft-5] is about questions related to the FT 5 by Folger Technologies. I'd like to request a rename so that the tag is [folgertech-ft-5] or [folgertech-ft5].
Most of our other tags have a similar naming schedule: aneta8, aneta6, aneta2. ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.646704 | 2016-06-23T09:33:07 | 168 | {
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... | Stack Exchange | support-material / support-structures Tag unification?
Should these two tags be unified? I don't think there is the need to have separate tags for support's structure and material, since the material is in most cases the same as printed. In the few cases it isn't, it would still be fine to have it in a unified support ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.646856 | 2016-07-14T13:45:24 | 180 | {
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"https://3dprinting.m... | Stack Exchange | Does this reworded question meet the SE requirements?
I have a question about my 3D Printing Stack Exchange post: Reverse engineered complex data sets produced by a 3D Solid Scanner. What would you scan for 3D printing?
Thanks in advance;)
Unfortunately, I don't think that the Stack Exchange network is a good fit f... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.646977 | 2016-08-11T17:25:36 | 182 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stac... | Stack Exchange | Wondering why CNC questions in general are not welcome here
Following this issue I would like to propose to allow general CNC related questions here as well. 3D Printers are CNC machines, they only add instead of subtract. 3D printers use G-Code, just like CNC milling machines.
3D Printing alone makes for a very narrow... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.647235 | 2016-12-15T20:10:02 | 204 | {
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"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | The fine line between 3d and CAD
I have noticed that we are getting a lot of questions like this one
Which really are CAD / Mech engineering questions. I will note this person needed several rewrites of his question. Though I am not sure asking for Hollywood 007 scifi computer automagic is focused enough for the group.... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.647698 | 2017-01-24T17:27:29 | 210 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/... | Stack Exchange | How to handle "Why is in't my printer working?!" questions
Seeing too many terrible questions lately asking along the lines of
"My printer was working, now it is not! Help!" With no provided information. As we are a growing group I do not want to just close them and say you suck at using our site... but I am finding t... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.648186 | 2017-01-13T19:39:27 | 209 | {
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"include_comments"... | Stack Exchange | Missing a [ptfe-tube] or [bowden-tube] tag
I just created this question, but there was a surprising lack of relevant tags. I don't have the privileges to add new ones myself, so could someone create some appropriate tag(s) for this?
(PS: I flagged my own question earlier to make this same request. That was before I rem... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.648260 | 2016-04-26T18:50:48 | 129 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/u... | Stack Exchange | Repairing 3D printer
The end switches of my 3D spider printer don't work well. I wonder whether it's on-topic asking how to repair 3D printers. In my case I'd describe what does not work, what the result is and what parts are used.
From a good answer I'd expect a proposal on how to fix it, e.g. a suggestion for an elec... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.648427 | 2016-03-23T19:49:55 | 115 | {
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"https:/... | Stack Exchange | merge [hbp] and [heated-bed] tags
Dont hbp and heated-bed mean the same thing? Should one be synonim with the other?
Currently at the time of this post:
There are 11 questions tagged hbp
Every single one of them have also heated-bed
There are 12 questions tagged heated-bed
Only leeand00 forgot to dual-tag his questio... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.648594 | 2016-05-13T08:47:04 | 156 | {
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"include_comm... | Stack Exchange | answer based on links (case: How to enlarge a Sketchup Model)
I'd like to discuss the case 'How to enlarge a Sketchup Model' question and my answer of course.
I do agree with Robert Cartaino when he said:
'The folks here will work hard to curate this collection of knowledge(...)'
It's true that SE forums are so valuabl... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.649065 | 2016-01-12T20:52:02 | 11 | {
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"Mark",
"Mark Booth",
"Nathan Tuggy",
"Swinders",
"Tom van der Zanden",
"Tomas Sykora",
"Tormod Haugene",
"Trevi Awate... | Stack Exchange | Who should our beta moderators be?
Given our successful private beta, soon after we go public it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators, as explained in the “Moderator Pro Tempore” blog post:
About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are deeply engaged in the community’s developm... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.649787 | 2016-09-20T16:47:47 | 187 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creati... | Stack Exchange | Handling possible advertisements
While doing reviews I noticed this answer. Innocent enough yet an odd answer for someone so new, upon checking their history I found another (their only other answer) that is nearly identical to this one and happens to be on the Blender site...
To me it seems an awful lot like an adver... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.649915 | 2016-01-28T09:13:04 | 80 | {
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"Josip Ivic",
"Robert Cartaino",
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"https://3dprintin... | Stack Exchange | Why are you voting to close this question?
How to choose a right 3D printer filament type?
I mean, this is usefull question. Why are you guys voting for close? It's not too broad, I formated it to be direct on topic.
Thanks afterwards.
Ok, I've edited the question. Any chance for reopen? http://3dprinting.stackexchang... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.650153 | 2016-02-02T10:02:20 | 89 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://cre... | Stack Exchange | Curious badge not working
Hm strange behaviour of one badge.
So... I asked 3 questions, all three have positive score.
What are the pros and cons of collecting parts yourself, versus getting a DIY kit and then modifying it?
How to choose a right 3D printer filament type?
Methods for smoothing 3D objects
My curious badg... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.650243 | 2016-02-03T09:36:38 | 91 | {
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"include_comments": true,
"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://cr... | Stack Exchange | Can this question be reopened now or is still too broad?
Methods for smoothing 3D objects
So... maybe one day it becomes community wiki. I think that we need this type of questions, so we can provide more detailed answers to methods and practices.
"is still too broad?" is answered by your own question, "we can provide... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.650483 | 2016-07-04T13:42:07 | 176 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/168",
"https://3dprinting.met... | Stack Exchange | How do we motivate users to vote and advertise the voting policy?
Sparked by another question on meta, I again wanted to reflect on my voting behaviour and the generally accepted practice on 3D Printing SE (3DP:SE) in the current beta stage.
I know this post Vote early, Vote often, and I do take it to be still the gene... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.650776 | 2016-11-29T20:59:49 | 194 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/545",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/612",
"https://3dprinting.meta.st... | Stack Exchange | Winter Bash 2016 coming up! Do we want to participate?
Just like last year, Winter Bash 2016 is being held by the Stack Overflow team between 19 December and 08 January 2017.
If we want to participate, the hats will find our heads too without further action. If we for whatever reason don't want to participate, we can c... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.650955 | 2016-05-10T06:41:09 | 151 | {
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],
"authors": [
"Greenonline",
"Kevin Brown-Silva",
"Robert Cartaino",
"Tom van... | Stack Exchange | Naming convention for tags with CamelCase or Pre-Fix
Are there any official naming conventions for tag names on Stack Exchange? And if not, how should tags be named?
From what I understand, one typically adds a dash (-) where you normally would leave a space, but how about tags that derive from words that are CamelCase... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.651299 | 2016-05-04T18:02:06 | 145 | {
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"authors": [
"Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/320"
],... | Stack Exchange | Are questions about sharing settings On Topic?
With reference to this question: should questions about sharing settings for printers and slicers etc. be considered as on topic for this site?
Or looked at it differently: how can one turn a question such as the one linked into something more than a debate of settings tha... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.651450 | 2016-07-07T20:54:09 | 179 | {
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"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6417",
"markshancock"
],
"include_com... | Stack Exchange | Another approach to solving "purchase" questions
I originally posted this on Meta StackExchange to judge whether my thoughts fit within SE and have been redirected back to our Meta.
We've received a few questions along the lines of purchasing references since we've opened in Beta. While I personally don't think direct ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.651758 | 2016-12-05T15:57:02 | 197 | {
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"authors": [
"MakerModder",
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"Zizouz212",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/138",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2146",
"https:/... | Stack Exchange | 3D Printing SE Beta Status
I'd like to talk about site building a little bit. We have now been in public Beta for almost a year now and I feel that we've learned a lot about what audience we have here on Stack Exchange. However, we've got a little ways to go before we can make it out of Beta.
The Stats
Questions per d... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.652267 | 2017-01-03T23:31:11 | 208 | {
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"authors": [
"Mr Lister",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/468",
"https://3dprintin... | Stack Exchange | Why is there a 3D-printing badge?
I'm a bit confused as to why there is a badge targeting a specific tag 3d-printing. I don't know what came first the tag or the badge, but it poses a potential flaw on either side.
We agreed to merge 3d-printer and 3d-printing tags in another meta post. I don't see it pull up in the ba... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.652347 | 2017-03-13T18:05:55 | 217 | {
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"authors": [
"Mjones",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/495",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/611",
"reBourne"
],
"include_comments": true,... | Stack Exchange | Generalized questions allowed?
We have a question simply asking about the existence of a type of printer. This question does not appear to be revolving around recommendation. Personally, I feel that questions like this can be useful for branching out and learning about non-traditional 3D printing.
Whether these should ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.652454 | 2016-02-11T15:14:02 | 101 | {
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"authors": [
"Amelia",
"Downgoat",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/224",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/226"
],
"include_comments": true,... | Stack Exchange | Questions about software and websites?
So far, it seems like questions about slicing engine software are within scope. However, what about questions about web applications such as Thingiverse, Tinkercad, GrabCAD, etc.? This makes me think that these are viable questions within the community. While they might not be rel... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.652699 | 2016-02-21T01:01:01 | 108 | {
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"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | Possible to include machine specs on community profile?
Just wondering if it's possible to add basic specifications on a users community profile page that specify some of the following characteristics:
Machine Manufacturer
Machine Model
Preferred Slicing software
Then, a flair-like control can be added to any questio... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.652809 | 2016-04-12T15:32:53 | 123 | {
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],
"authors": [
"Rich",
"Ryan Carlyle",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/273",
"ht... | Stack Exchange | Bio-Printing Questions Okay?
A recent question regarding bio-printing has been put on hold and I'd like to discuss the validity of the question here in the 3D Printing community.
I personally feel that the question fits within the scope of the community as it specifically requests details on the process of 3D printing.... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.653061 | 2016-05-06T22:29:28 | 147 | {
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],
"authors": [
"Adrian Maire",
"LuukS",
"Tormod Haugene",
"Trish",
"https:... | Stack Exchange | Hobbyist Machine questions On-Topic?
We have a recent question that brings up the question of "Should we support general hobbyist questions?"
Currently, there doesn't appear to be a viable site within the SE network. The question at hand seems to be a mix between 3D Printing and DIY. If we allow this question, it could... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.653424 | 2016-01-12T20:30:19 | 6 | {
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"authors": [
"ArtOfCode",
"Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'",
"JNat",
"Josip Ivic",
"Mark Booth",
"Marsh",
"Taryn",
"Zizouz212",
"hairboat",
"https://3dprin... | Stack Exchange | What should our documentation contain?
From The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta:
What should our documentation contain?
Much of the sites documentation will be the same as on every other Stack Exchange site: “be nice,” “how to create an account,” “how to ask questions” — it’s all pretty static. Even the secti... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.653956 | 2016-01-13T03:18:40 | 28 | {
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],
"authors": [
"2D Printing Grace Note",
"AutoDemolisher",
"Dustin Wheeler",
"Zizouz212",
"deltree",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10",
"https://3d... | Stack Exchange | Answers that don't answer the question
This has inspired some discussion and I may be just splitting hairs, but I've always been confused by this strategy. The specific example I'm referring to is here: https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/a/29/60
In many cases on SE, I see people post "Answers" that basically say "Do... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.654694 | 2016-08-28T12:08:04 | 185 | {
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"authors": [
"Gliderman",
"Tom van der Zanden",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/26... | Stack Exchange | Are software recommendation questions allowed here?
We've recently had a number of questions of the form "What is a good design software for X?"
What is the best 3D modeling software for a beginner on a 3D printed mini barrel project?
What is a good software for designing car parts
On almost any Stack Exchange (barri... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.655006 | 2016-07-05T11:01:30 | 177 | {
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],
"authors": [
"Tom van der Zanden",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/... | Stack Exchange | Why was the question about thermistors migrated?
This question was migrated to electronics.SE. To me the migration makes no sense:
The question deals with a problem that is relevant to the users of this site
This site can provide a more specialized answer than electronics.SE can provide: you don't just need to know wh... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.655411 | 2016-11-15T20:21:11 | 189 | {
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],
"authors": [
"Greenonline",
"Tom van der Zanden",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https:/... | Stack Exchange | Why do the [3d-printer] and [3d-printing] tags exist?
I noticed that the most popular tag (82 questions tagged) is 3d-printer, and that we also have a 3d-printing tag (23 questions). These seem extremely redundant to me, given that they should apply to any question that is on-topic and thus serve no practical purpose. ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.655572 | 2016-04-28T12:13:40 | 132 | {
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"authors": [
"MatthiasB",
"QwertyChouskie",
"Tom van der Zanden",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/26",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/285... | Stack Exchange | Typo in arduino-mega-2560 tag
We have an arduino-mega-2560 tag but we also have an incorrectly spelled arduino-meda-2560 tag (which unfortunately is used far more often than the correct tag).
Creating a synonym doesn't seem the way to go (since it's not a synonym, it's just incorrect) and there's nobody with enough sco... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.655672 | 2016-03-26T08:02:56 | 116 | {
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],
"authors": [
"bummi",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/550",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/98",
"tbm0115"
],
"include_comments": true,
... | Stack Exchange | Circular tag wiki excerpts
I just noticed that there is a large amount of tag wiki excerpts edits in the review queue, all of which are of the form:
X is for questions about X
A tag wiki excerpt should define what a term means to our community specifically and give usage advice. In particular, Stack Exchange offers t... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.655888 | 2019-01-01T04:56:52 | 378 | {
"all_licenses": [
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],
"authors": [
"Trish",
"darth pixel",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1211",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8884"
],
"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | 2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny sli... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.656184 | 2019-06-06T20:01:26 | 410 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"0scar",
"Greenonline",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4762",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5740"
],
"include_comments": t... | Stack Exchange | YouTube video embedding has been ENABLED for this site
By reqest of this community, direct embedding of YouTube videos has been ENABLED.
When you include a valid YouTube link on a line by itself, the video will appear in your post automatically.
There are a few caveats that go with this:
Videos should be used as supp... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.656341 | 2016-05-03T18:22:41 | 138 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Franck Dernoncourt",
"Robert Cartaino",
"Tormod Haugene",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/user... | Stack Exchange | What is our scope?
There has been a lot of questions and confusion about what is acceptable here on 3D Printing SE. Let's go ahead and discuss what types of questions should be acceptable on the site.
We're going to do this based on votes. I'll leave it up to debate in the comments below, but we'll emulate Area51 quest... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.656722 | 2016-01-12T22:22:27 | 18 | {
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"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Eric Johnson",
"Greenonline",
"Kevin Morse",
"TheNewHobbyist",... | Stack Exchange | Is there going to be a Logo Contest?
Are there plans or ideas floating around for a logo contest, or is that a Public-Beta stage thing?
Getting a logo is part of getting a design, which is something that happens when a site graduates out of public beta.
In short, not for a long time yet.
While the site is in beta it w... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.656933 | 2017-06-06T16:14:10 | 230 | {
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"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"0scar",
"Greenonline",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/... | Stack Exchange | Should we turn on "inlined video"?
We have, now, assertained that inlined videos (for want of a better description) are currently turned off (disabled) for SE 3D Printing, but can be turned on at any time, and there is no need to wait for the site to exit Beta, see Is the "inlining videos" capability turned off on this... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.657296 | 2020-01-01T17:02:00 | 465 | {
"all_licenses": [
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],
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"include_comments": true,
"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | 2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny sli... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.657544 | 2016-05-03T14:07:10 | 135 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"0scar",
"Anton Osadchy",
"MakerModder",
"TextGeek",
"Tormo... | Stack Exchange | Pro Tem Moderator 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 to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Modera... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.657725 | 2023-01-26T17:10:26 | 561 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [],
"include_comments": true,
"license": "Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
"provenance": "stackexchange-dolma-000... | Stack Exchange | 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 network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:
We designed the Stack ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.657882 | 2021-01-19T19:42:38 | 508 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Greenonline",
"JNat",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/13",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4762"
],
"include_comments": true... | Stack Exchange | 2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:
We designed the Stack Exchange ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.658076 | 2016-07-03T20:32:53 | 174 | {
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"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Greenonline",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4762",
... | Stack Exchange | Accepting Unanswered Questions
Some might noticed that I've posted "blanket" questions to some older questions that have 1 or more answers, but unaccepted. This is partially a reminder to answer unaccepted questions if there is a valid answer (or update the question with more refined question(s)). But, I'd also like to... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.658309 | 2016-06-12T17:54:26 | 164 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Calvin's Hobbies",
"J. Roibal - BlockchainEng",
"Larry",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2111",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/us... | Stack Exchange | Questions about Makerspaces and 3-D Printers?
Are questions about 3-D printers and their use in makerspaces allowed, for example, "What are the best practices for the maintenance of 3-D printers in makerspaces?" and "What is the best software based solution for the operation of 3-D printers in makerspaces?" Thanks in a... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.658479 | 2016-06-02T14:40:41 | 159 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
],
"authors": [
"J. Roibal - BlockchainEng",
"Tormod Haugene",
"Zizouz212",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/u... | Stack Exchange | Is there any way to prevent endless "best first printer" posts?
It's pretty manageable right now due to the low question rate, but I think maybe ~3% of all questions this site will get, forever, will be "what's the best printer" or "what printer should I buy" type questions. They're mostly coming from people who don't ... |
2025-03-21T12:54:35.658950 | 2016-03-17T14:36:20 | 111 | {
"all_licenses": [
"Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
],
"authors": [
"Mark Booth",
"ProgramFOX",
"Tormod Haugene",
"dlu",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/115",
"https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/user... | Stack Exchange | Closing/locking too many questions?
I've been seeing feedback from people in other 3DP communities that they think this stack exchange site is driving away new users by holding newbie questions to an excessively high standard for quality. On one hand, we all know SE works best with clear and logical questions that lead... |
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