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What should I know when coming here from Stack Exchange?

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This website seems much like the 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 to vote was elsewhere, though heavily limited).

As a new member, what should I know at minimum to participate effectively here; and is there a good place for finding more extensive information?

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Notable differences from a user-visible perspective:

  • Upvotes and downvotes are tracked and displayed separately. This makes a clear distinction between a controversial answer (+20/-20) and an answer that nobody has voted on (+0/-0). On StackExchange these would be indistinguishable without the privilege of being able to view up and down votes.
  • Comments are threaded, and threads are collapsed by default. This helps to reduce the level of comment noise that is typically seen on high-visibility StackExchange questions, and encourages the use of comments for their intended purpose: to suggest improvements to answers or request clarification of a question (rather than to soapbox, or offer low-quality semi-answers, as is often the case on StackExchange).
  • Both up and downvoting is available to all users without being gated by reputation. I'm not in a position to state whether this is better or worse than requiring a minimum rep to downvote, but it is the currently-implemented policy.
  • "Accepted answers" do not exist. Instead, you can apply a badge to a particular answer, which states "Worked for <person>", but this does not bless the answer with a prominent green tick or pin it to the top of the list of answers. This allows a questioner or any other user to thank a particular answerer for solving their problem, without subverting the ranking system or promoting a possibly low-quality answer that happens to tell the questioner what they wanted to hear.
  • The Code of Conduct is reasonable, straightforward, and based on common sense rules that encourage a civil and constructive learning environment, rather than a tool for pushing a Silicon Valley ideological agenda. Long may it remain that way.
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Mark S.‭ wrote 16 days ago

Since the user account is deleted, I can't expect a reasonable response, but I wonder what was meant by (and more importantly, how the 29 upvoting people and non-downvoters are interpreting) "rather than a tool a Silicon Valley ideological agenda". It's obviously a shorthand, but the meaning is not obvious to me at all. It could mean anything from "this community is near-unanimous in holding an opinion I find reprehensible", to "this community is near-unanimous in an opinion I don't have strong feelings about", or "this community is near-unanimous in an opinion I agree with". The alarm-raising phrase "ideological agenda" rather than something more like "culture" or "opinions" or "practices" or "behavior" makes me guess that I would not fit in with this community. I wish this post were more clear.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 11 days ago

Mark S.‭ Apparently this (now deleted) user doesn't like something that he perceives to be the culture of "Silicon Valley". He is expressing satisfaction that the Code of Conduct does NOT try to push whatever he thinks a "Silicon Valley ideological agenda" is. That means he thinks said agenda is bad.

In any case, you shouldn't read much into this. There are many reasons people might have upvoted this answer. The likely main reason is that it's mostly factual and correct. I don't know what the Silicon Valley reference is supposed to mean either, but in the end this answer is saying that the Code of Conduct is reasonable. Upvoters may have shrugged at the SV reference and upvoted for the rest. In any case, the Code of Conduct is available for you to read so that you can make up your own mind about it.

This one post should really not be much of a reason to decide whether to be active in Codidact or not. Look around at what we actually DO, and make up your own mind.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 11 days ago

Mark S.‭ Also note that the question currently has four answers, and this answer has the least positive vote of all of them. The vote tally seems high for Codidact, until you compare it to the other answers. Put another way, it only seems high due to high overall volume, but not in a relative sense. Perhaps that is because of the ambiguity of the last point. Too many people may not want to say "I agree" when it's not clear what they are agreeing to, or it sounds like a rant, or ... whatever.