Questions tagged [discussion]
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Overly specific tags w.r.t. printer models and variants
I recently deleted a recently added tag creality-ender-3-v3-se, in this suggested edit. There is already creality-ender-3, adding a tag for the variant seemed unnecessary.
I thought that there was a ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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How do I earn reputation points?
I am a new user of this site. But have been running my own 3D Printing service, sales & concept modeling business since white ABS was the only filament easily available. I wanted to post a helpful ...
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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 ...
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Should I delete and repost in another community?
I asked https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/23074/can-i-add-tmc-stepsticks-in-parallel-with-existing-a4988 but it seems this community lacks the electronics knowledge to answer it.
Would it ...
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Please vote: Do we want an AI warning banner?
This could be considered to be a follow-up of AI generated content is problematic
Can I draw your attention to this post on SE.Meta, Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Are "Where can I find XXX?" questions on-topic?
Are questions that ask for a link to a specific type of model, STL file, or object file, such as this example, Where can I find an object file ir mesh file for a cilantro plant with thick exagerated ...
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AI generated content is problematic
In the last weeks, I have seen about half a dozen answers that do not answer the questions properly and just read strange. I ran them through writer's AI content checker and for the worst ones got ...
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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 ...