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Welcome to Codidact Meta!

Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

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Q&A How to financially support the Codidact project?

The main Codidact page tells us that: Our goal is to build an open-source platform for community-driven Q&amp;A sites. We aim to welcome beginners and experts alike and to empower communities of l...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes?

I received an important question in private email, and I'm bringing it here so we can improve on the answer I sent. This won't be the last time we get this question; let's develop a clear, effecti...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Allow licence change when there's only one contributor

I wrote a post without realizing I was using the default licence CC BY-SA instead of the licence I wanted to use (CC0). I wanted to amend my mistake; I wasn't able to. Other similar (but closed sou...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A I cannot understand the meaning of disrespectful.

(Please note that I write this post only for the record. I personally do not hope that some changes will be made.) I have been informed of some contradictory policies (attitudes), which I personall...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by tommi‭

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Q&A How should staff deal with posts critical of themselves that they want deleted?

Recently, we had a question asked about priorities of the 'community team'1. The poster then self-answered (which is fine). This answer then got deleted2 and a different user asked a question about...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Mithrandir24601‭  ·  edited 2y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?

Before starting the concern, I want to appreciate and acknowledge the community team for their volunteer efforts to run Codidact and handle its issues as far as they can. When I sometimes talk to s...

6 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 2y ago by MathPhysics‭

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Q&A Post on Stack Exchange and Codidact

I would prefer to post questions in Codidact than on Stack Exchange and I want to contribute to Codidact by doing so. However, I am certain that the probability of getting a useful answer is higher...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Guilherme Costa‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why was this answer to the volunteer-discussion removed?

For what reasons post (answer or question) might be removed by moderator / staff ? I do not ask about obvious reasons like spam, off-topic, base rule violations, etc here. Context: history. Obviou...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members?

This came up a bit in my post to try to get a TRPG site going, but I think it's really a broader issue, not just to starting new communities but also to the ones that are already launched. Just ho...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Logician‭

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Q&A Orientation / Welcoming Committee

I'm not sure where to start, on my first visit to this site. I don't know the rules, the context, the history, anything really. What brought me here is the search for better online discussion techn...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by dagelf‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What are the close reasons on Codidact?

In my opinion the following should be the only default close reason for any Codidact community: CoC (without the problematic sentence) violation obvious spam, like posting nonsense things or promo...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 2y ago by MathPhysics‭

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Q&A Why is it not possible to accept answers? [duplicate]

I asked a question but to my surprise I cannot mark it as accepted. Is this a conscious design decision? If so, what is the reason?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Wikis‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community?

The following is an excerpt from this community staff's answer: I definitely didn't thought of the CoC-version of "Not Constructive" when I added the "Not Constructive"-close reason. The intention...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Migrate users from deprecated Codidact forum

Should user accounts from forum.codidact.org be imported? Since the forum was deprecated, I read the notice and went to this meta. The top of the meta says that all Codidact sites have the same log...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Let us have a transparent review system.

Issue According to the answers provided by the community staff to this post, I conclude that one of the Codidact policies is empowering moderators to take some required actions in some situations a...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A To be constructive, or not to be constructive, that is the question.

After reading this answer, I have concluded that any post and any behavior satisfying the Code of Conduct are welcomed in any Codidact Community. The Code of Conduct has been written well, and all ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Why can users get negative reputation?

I saw a user account which had a negative reputation. On the StackExchange sites, the minimum user rep is 1. So why is a negative reputation possible here? I'd like to know the reason, if it was a ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Wikis‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A How granular should network communities be?

What are (y)our principles for deciding how granular Codidact network communities should be? The Other Place seems to lean towards more granular communities—one for software development, one for se...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by r~~‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A [status-completed] posts bury everything else

At the time of writing, there is a big chunk of (around 15) [status-completed] and [status-declined] posts in the Q&amp;A category feed, burying the open posts. Since open posts are much more impor...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Feature Request: Comments improvements to indicate assent or dissent with previously posted comments

Often I'm looking over a post and feel that I have what to add as a comment. But as soon as I look at the comments, I find that someone's already written exactly what I would have said. At that poi...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by jla‭

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Q&A Community Rules

Was reading this Post and I certainly agree with the general differences like open source and non-profit that differentiate Codidact. But the Community vs Repo point leaves some questions. Sure eac...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Culyx‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why prefering Codidact to Stack Exchange?

As I explained in this post and some community staff confirmed, Codidact is almost a miniature of SE. In fact, I see no radical difference between them. As we know, almost all (in my opinion, all w...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ShowMeBillyJo‭

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Q&A Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question?

Today I saw the following question on Software Dev (this is the beginning): (rest of post...) The title, "connect with SLOT/SIGNAL:QPushButton clicked signal not received by main window" sounds li...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Should there be a forum-like place for the Codidact network?

I would like to propose a place on the Codidact network where one can informally talk with other members of the network in a slower paced setting about off-topic stuff (for example movie recommenda...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Why does the title come after the body when writing a question?

This might sound silly, but ever since I wrote my first post here, I have noticed that the title comes after the body and I find it quite strange. Since I have some activity using Stack Exchange (b...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A What should I know when coming here from Stack exchange?

This website seems much like Stack exchange family of sites, but I immediately noticed some differences, like being able to comment at once and not being able to vote on this meta (but the ability ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by tommi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Should we use the Article type for bug reports?

I've recently been looking through the [bug] tag, and one thing stood out to me. Every bug post either has no answers, or one answer that just says, "The bug has been fixed" (or some variation ther...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Do we need templates for new posts?

We have some posting tips on the "ask question" (or "create post" etc) pages, and we plan to add better contextual help in the future. Another way to guide people would be with templates, a "proto...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should [status-completed] be used before the changes are live?

As of the time of writing, this request has the [status-completed] tag despite the change not being live yet. It is completely developed, sure, but since it is not yet deployed, should the request ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Sigma‭

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Q&A Should we have "Last seen" times?

Tracking when each user last logged in or last was active may be onerous but such information can be helpful in various ways, such as in deciding when to return to a post. Edit At least for the tim...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by pnuts‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Does Codidact have to be too similar to SE?

Examining Codidact communities, one can easily find out that Codidact is almost a duplicate of SE I know that many Codidact users (or maybe all of them) are current or former SE users, so it was ex...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

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Q&A Does Codidact want to silence its users as SE does?

After joining Codidact and then reading many posts, I concluded that Codidact is a place allowing people to express their opposing ideas freely, unlike SE. But, something happened that I had to dou...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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Q&A Please postpone launching new communities.

I know that Codidact is a new website developed by volunteers, so I do not expect it to be as well-appointed as an experienced website like Stack Exchange. However, although I have joined Codidact ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  reopened 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes

In my opinion, downvoting some kinds of posts is meaningless. For example, why should anyone downvote a bug report, like this post? If someone has the same problem, they can upvote the bug report; ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A auto re licensing

If this had a feature where one could set triggers for stuff, I'd use it to set up a trigger that re licenses all and each of my CC BY NC SA stuff to CC BY SA1 after each hits 50th year age. The go...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Should we allow capitalized tags?

So this has been bugging me for a while now. Recently, the tags Chinese, Cantonese, and Mandarin were changed to lowercase. When asking why on the discord, I was told that it was because "tags are ...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should tags be written in American or in British English?

On Cooking, I sometimes run into comprehension issues as food is labelled differently around the world. One recent example for this is ground beef and minced meat which both essentially mean the sa...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Change the primary font from Roboto

I have nothing against Roboto, I think it's a lovely font and has it's use case. I find it challenging to read when you have anything more than a sentence or two. I don't have a perfect alternative...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Welz‭

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Q&A Bypass Caps and High Frequency Current Return Paths [closed]

Hello, everyone! I was watching this video by w2aew on the function of ceramic bypass capacitors, and at 6:00 he states that high-frequency currents take the path of least-impedance and make their ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by jm567‭  ·  closed 2y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Can we move questions?

This question was accidentally posted in meta instead of language, and ended up being closed. Does the ability to move questions between sites currently exist, or is closing the only way to deal wi...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Is there a consensus on comment layouts for the MVP and beyond?

I've been looking around Codidact sites, wiki, repos and mission, to be able to determine if this is even a discussable or interesting topic at all. I was about to drop any ideas to ask this questi...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Julio Cezar Silva‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why isn't the text editor in the same font as what posts are?

It's not really an issue, but I'm curious why Codidact chose to use a monospace font for editing/posting while published posts use a normal font.

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Should the post title come before the body?

Should the post title come before the body? When starting a new post, the first thing that comes to my mind is the topic of the post. In that case I usually first jot down a draft title and then st...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Welz‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Martin Bonner‭

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Q&A Difference between Codidact.org and codidact.com

What's the difference between codidact.org and codidact.com?

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Severus Snape‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Community Ad Templates now available

You have a website or a blog where you want to advertise for your favorite Codidact community? Or you got permission to advertise on someone else's website? Great. Please spread the word and invite...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Announcing a new user tour

Oh... yet another announcement from me :) So, we built a new user tour, which explains how Codidact works. Every new user will get an inbox-notification inviting them to take the tour (only once, n...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Announcing featured links

You might have noticed, that the Hot Posts sidebar widget changed. This is, because we added some new features surrounding it. Most noteably, moderators can now feature links to that bulletin. This...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A What are the steps between community idea and community proposal?

Inspired from this post asking what steps there are between proposal and launching a community, I would like to know what steps there are between an idea and a proposal. Right now, we have at least...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Scoring System for Trust Level Requirements

Currently, we're planning to implement a system for user privileges based on Trust Levels. These are of the form of 'if you satisfy [these requirements], you get [these perks]', where [these requir...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Mithrandir24601‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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