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1 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 printing but SE explicitly discourages "easy... |
2 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 questions with tags, to allow future visitors to i... |
5 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 specific machine should ... |
6 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 sections about “what kind of quest... |
11 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 development; members who: Have a ... |
18 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
Are there plans or ideas floating around for a logo contest, or is that a Public-Beta stage thing?
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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 will keep this theme... |
19 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 the link with an image and... |
21 | 2016/01/12 | Question:
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 example is clearly not on topic, and the other examples ar... |
28 | 2016/01/13 | 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: In many cases on SE, I see people post "Answers" that basically say "Don't do what you're doing. Instead you can get to your goal by doing this." ... |
30 | 2016/01/13 | Question:
A big shout out to all of us for a successful graduation into private beta. Let's make it a success now, and make sure we graduate into a full-fledged site. So, this is one post which every user of a private beta site should read and act accordingly. This is a reproduction of a moderator's (Richard) post on m... |
32 | 2016/01/13 | Question:
This site may attract questions such as Is it legal to sell 3D printed objects from a model repository? Are 3D printed guns legal in my jurisdiction? If my custom-built printer sets my house on fire, does the insurance cover it? Are such questions allowed on this site, or should they be redirected to a site d... |
37 | 2016/01/13 | Question:
What would be a good tag to use for doing business/making profit with a 3D printer?
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I'd suggest two different tags: [monetization]: For selling, or profiting from printing, or from printing machines [financing] (or [costs]): For calculating the cost of materials and machines, including operational ex... |
49 | 2016/01/13 | Question:
I believe this question is asked on every private Beta... what should be the name of our chatroom?
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The Hotbed. Colloquially, "hotbed" generally refers to a center of activity. Here, it will have a double meaning (referencing the hot bed of a 3D printer.
Answer:
Filibusters! I've heard that from some... |
59 | 2016/01/15 | Question:
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?
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I see a form of hierarchy that could be used. Depending on the question a higher level tag could be used... |
69 | 2016/01/20 | Question:
The questions so far are pretty strongly geared towards hobbyist/consumer FFF machines. That's not necessarily bad, since that's where most legit questions will come from. (Not much reason to ask questions about a plug-and-play industrial machine.) But it's a pretty important scope distinction. So far, askers... |
74 | 2016/01/24 | Question:
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?
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. We're still currently in the private beta stage, and we'll be in this spot for ... |
76 | 2016/01/24 | Question:
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 community to advertise relevant products or s... |
77 | 2016/01/27 | Question:
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
Answer:
I don't think any of these types of questions should be on-topic... |
79 | 2016/01/28 | Question:
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 questions out of these beta s... |
83 | 2016/01/29 | Question:
I feel like questions along the lines of, "my printer is crashing for no obvious reason, what should I do?" may be too broad and open-ended for this format. It's better handled by a forum where people can have running discussions to rule out a series of tests. What do you guys think?
Answer:
For common probl... |
91 | 2016/02/03 | Question:
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.
Answer:
"is still too broad?" is answered by your own question, "we can provide more detailed answers" . The problem e... |
111 | 2016/03/17 | Question:
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 to clear and logical answ... |
116 | 2016/03/26 | Question:
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 the following defau... |
118 | 2016/03/29 | Question:
I see there was already a meta question regarding this but it was back during the private beta. The site is now in the public beta and still not very healthy with only 2.1 questions per day and a very low 219 visits per day compared to the recommended 1,500... I'm not sure what happens once the beta ends but ... |
123 | 2016/04/12 | Question:
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. Valid Questions: A... |
134 | 2016/05/03 | Question:
The amount of posts being voted to closed is getting ridiculous. The last two posts have been printing related, one looking for information and the other a design question for 3D printing yet both have been voted to be closed. Yes, I have read the other Meta post about how closing is not permanent ( Closing/l... |
138 | 2016/05/03 | Question:
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 question requi... |
141 | 2016/05/03 | Question:
Context: I have absolutely no knowledge of 3D printing other than you need a computer, a printer, some software, and a design. That is literally the extent of my knowledge on 3D printing. However, I have an idea of something I'd like to have 3D printed. While the idea has a fairly reasonably defined shape in ... |
147 | 2016/05/06 | Question:
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 allow people to ask ques... |
151 | 2016/05/10 | Question:
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 CamelCased , or somehow Prefixed ? Examples (which ... |
156 | 2016/05/13 | Question:
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 valuable also because there are hard working moderators a... |
159 | 2016/06/02 | Question:
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 know enough about 3DP to articulate their requirements... |
177 | 2016/07/05 | Question:
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 whether it's a 10k or 100k thermistor, but... |
179 | 2016/07/07 | Question:
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 questions about " What is the best 3D p... |
182 | 2016/08/11 | Question:
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 community if it excludes subtractive manufacturin... |
189 | 2016/11/15 | Question:
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. These tags are simply too broad. The usage ... |
196 | 2016/12/05 | Question:
In past few months, there are a devastatingly few number of users that cast up votes, and many of users aren't coming back to site, and existing users don't have so much reputation, because no one is voting up great questions / answers. So... let me start like this.. THIS IS REALLY DEVASTATING We all need to ... |
197 | 2016/12/05 | Question:
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 day is 2.1 /10; 21%... |
213 | 2017/01/28 | Question:
I'll start off on a good note and congratulate everyone in the community for continually supporting each other. We have maintained a great answer rate here on 3D Printing SE with a answer rate of 96%. I believe this rate has been maintained since day one and it's hard to keep up, especially with fluctuations ... |
219 | 2017/03/19 | Question:
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?
Answer:
Great question! 3DPrinting SE attracts a lot of new Stack Exchange network users,... |
222 | 2017/05/10 | Question:
This question may require migration to Meta.SE, as it could be a site-wide "bug", but I thought that I would test the waters here, to see if there is an obvious explanation. I noticed that a question of mine had been modified, on April 16, by "Song Khmer" in the unanswered questions list , when sorted by vote... |
226 | 2017/05/29 | Question:
I have just edited a new post, Help understanding bridge settings , so that the video would be "inlined" and playable in the post itself 1 . However, the video does not show up, and only the raw link ( ) is displayed: This is the markup: I have used the same markup method, for inlining the video clip as this ... |
230 | 2017/06/06 | Question:
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 site? The question now i... |
236 | 2017/06/22 | Question:
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.
Answer:
+1 - As it seems a good idea. Not... |
246 | 2017/08/25 | Question:
Should we add a tag for 'laser' for those of us who are attaching laser cutters/burners to 3D printers to turn them into 3D CNC. Or is this drifting too far off topic from "3d printing"?
Answer:
A good question. I'm currently using insights I obtained from mucking about with a 3D printer with Arduino Mega 25... |
249 | 2017/09/25 | Question:
This post has been up for 4-5 days now. I flagged it originally when it was first posted and that flag aged away, I have now flagged it again and it's still here. We have one user that shares part of the posters name but I am unsure if they are connected in any way or if that name references the linked user. ... |
260 | 2018/04/20 | Question:
I recently asked a question ( Is there any public and reasonably accurate 3D scan from a Cray-2 computer? ) about where to find (if there is any, because I tried and there seems not to be) a 3D model of a specific object I could use as a starting point for printable model and printable parts and it was flagge... |
264 | 2018/05/25 | Question:
I can't find an answer to this question on the "mother" meta website; hope this is not related to my choice of words in the search box. The statistics of the 3D Printing on Area51 show that only few items (questions and visits per day) are not up to par and need work. Do those need to reach a level of let's s... |
270 | 2018/06/06 | Question:
What is the difference between post-production and post-processing , or are they synonyms? Should they be merged? 1 post-production has no description whatsoever. After looking at What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work? , We can make post-processing the master and post-production the slave sy... |
276 | 2018/06/13 | Question:
Please note; Due to its very nature, this post is very subjective and is not intended to be a definitive list of categories. It is merely an attempt to offer one perspective of what has been suggested, and to ask "How should we move forward?" Sometimes it is a bit hard to see the wood for the trees... Followi... |
292 | 2018/07/08 | Question:
as it is currently, there are several diy-3d-printer questions that gave info about a specific printer. While I tried to add the appropriate names for these kit-printers, I feel that it technically is inappropriate for these to actually have this tag. Even as the DIY tag contains the "assembled from a kit by ... |
298 | 2018/07/16 | Question:
At the moment there are two tags related to fans: print-fan fans If you look at the topics there is no distinction which fans are meant, this must be read in the questions. Should we create separate tags for specific fan applications?
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There aren't that many topics labelled with either one of the exis... |
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QualC Stack Exchange English
A cleaned and validated English Stack Exchange corpus prepared for large language model (LLM) pretraining.
This dataset is part of the QualC Foundation Corpus, an open collection of high-quality datasets intended for training multilingual foundation models.
Dataset Information
- Language: English
- Records: 999,832
- Format: Hugging Face Dataset
- Schema: Flat Text
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (inherits the original Stack Exchange content license)
Dataset Features
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| qid | int64 | Original Question ID |
| date | string | Original post date |
| text | string | Question and answers combined into a single training document |
Example
Question:
How do I find the number of items in a circular queue?
Answer:
Assuming you implement it using an array...
Answer:
The standard answer is to...
Answer:
Use the following formula...
Cleaning Pipeline
The original dataset was processed using a custom cleaning pipeline.
Cleaning steps include:
- HTML removal
- HTML entity decoding
- Unicode normalization (NFKC)
- Removal of invalid Unicode characters
- URL removal
- Control character removal
- Whitespace normalization
- Duplicate removal
- Empty record removal
- Conversion to flat text format
Nested answer objects were converted into a single text document suitable for language model pretraining.
Validation Report
Final validation after cleaning:
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Total Records | 999,832 |
| Empty Text | 0 |
| Short Text | 0 |
| Encoding Errors | 0 |
| HTML Tags | 0 |
| URLs | 0 |
| Duplicate Text | 0 |
The dataset passed all validation checks.
Intended Use
This dataset is suitable for:
- Foundation model pretraining
- Continued pretraining
- Language modeling
- Instruction tuning
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Reasoning research
- NLP experiments
Not Intended For
This dataset is not intended for:
- Benchmark evaluation
- Measuring factual correctness
- Safety evaluation
- Human preference modeling without additional filtering
Stack Exchange content reflects community-generated discussions and may contain outdated or incorrect information.
Source
Original content originates from Stack Exchange.
The dataset was cleaned, validated, and reformatted for language model pretraining.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite both the original Stack Exchange data source and this cleaned release.
@dataset{qualc_stackexchange_en,
title={QualC Stack Exchange English},
author={Nandhakumar M. S.},
year={2026},
publisher={Hugging Face},
note={Cleaned English Stack Exchange corpus for LLM pretraining}
}
Acknowledgements
Thanks to:
- Stack Exchange Community
- Hugging Face
- The open-source AI community
for making large-scale language model research possible.
Part of the QualC Foundation Corpus
Current released datasets:
- ✅ QualC FineWeb English
- ✅ QualC FineWeb-Edu English
- ✅ QualC Wikipedia English
- ✅ QualC Stack Exchange English
More high-quality datasets covering scientific literature, books, government publications, multilingual corpora, mathematics, and code will be released as part of the QualC Foundation Corpus.
Maintainer
Nandhakumar M. S.
Building open multilingual datasets for foundation model research.
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