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Q&A Allow users to link more than one website in their profile.

Let's talk about design. Clearly we wouldn't want to allow any number of links, because having a thousand links would break the layout in some way. Unless we put it behind a "show more" control of...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How many votes are required for special actions like close, reopen, delete or restore?

I am wondering about the number of votes required to perform the following actions: close reopen delete restore I have found this forum thread, but it is unclear what are the current values.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only

Quoting is sometimes necessary for context. Sometimes an answer needs to focus on one part of the question -- one claim, one line of code, etc. Not being able to quote would impede clarity. This...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts

We know from over 10 years of experience from SE/SO that one of the most common sources of drama, snark, rudeness, escalating arguments, conflicts, users feeling unwelcome, the community getting ...

posted 3y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 3y ago by meriton‭

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Q&A Should we change the score required for the Curate trust level, and if so, to what?

We have some really interesting comments on this answer about the current functionality of the Curate privilege that we wanted to break out into a separate discussion. Currently, all of our user a...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Sigma‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What to do about sock puppets in Site Proposals?

Flagging the Monica post (since I can't flag the comments) gives me a 500 error—I don't know if it's impossible to flag staff, or if I don't have flagging privileges, or what. Is there some other...

posted 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Should HTML entities be supported in titles?

I just noticed that HTML entities (such as &aleph; for ℵ or &mdash; for —) seem not to be supported in titles. Should they be? Clarification: I'm not asking for general HTML support in t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A send mail for new community

We don't do a whole lot on the email notifications front, really. The only emails we send automatically from the application are account emails, plus any subscriptions you create. Beyond that, we d...

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted

Our team has been exploring some ideas to improve Codidact's design. We've wanted to improve the visual design for a while, and we also have a lot of other usability changes we'd like to make. We...

20 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Q&A The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy?

Response to homework dumps should be site-specific. On Electrical Engineering, we addressed this up front by explicitly mentioning homework in the Allowed Topics help file (See the very last bulle...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Should post tags go above the post content, rather than below it?

Consider, strictly as an example, the question updating a function within a struct on Software Development. There's a reasonable number of programming languages where something like that might be ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists

I was away from Codidact for a few hours and, coming back, saw that I had ⑨ unread notifications. Practically as I was watching it, the number grew to ⑩. This wouldn't be so bad, but it turned ou...

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

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Q&A Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists

I thought we did this already, so I had a look. Turns out we were using the wrong link to check for duplicates, which I've updated. You should find you only get one notification per comment thread ...

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A A friendly error when trying to upload a profile picture more than 2 MB

This is an extremely common problem. The true geeks among us know how to resize and compress an image before uploading. The rest of the world just knows (barely) how to upload an original image fro...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Comments count includes deleted comments, which it shouldn't

Using this post purely as an example, because I'm quite sure that the problem is general. Observe: At first, we are told that there are "4 comments": Expanding inline, the summary says 4 of...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Incorrect text for requirements to edit tags [duplicate]

On all sites on the user abilities page for editing tag info, it says you need x% of accepted edits and y number of edits on tag wikis and tag usage guidance even though you currently can't suggest...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Ethan‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Which communities have shown interest?

Historical note: When this post was written, we planned to use the QPixel software as a stopgap while building a new Codidact platform from scratch. That's not what we ended up doing. Since early ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts?

Not allowing fluff was the norm Elsewhere, and I consider it the norm here unless explicitly stated to the contrary. I am not aware of a community here that has stated they like content-free greet...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What incentives are there currently to edit and moderate? Should there be more?

On Stack Exchange, I spent a significant portion of my time on the site editing posts, because the idea of an SE site as a repository of useful reference information has long appealed to me. Being...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A A refactoring convenience function.

Here is a redraft and elaboration of what this post is about, partially in response to some comments I've received. This post may be about a few different things at once, and may need to be refact...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Minor suggested edits to old posts

I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually none. One suggested edit made the title longer without adding any meaning, t...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once?

If edits are made to a large number of posts in a short period, they will push everything else off the front page, taking visibility away from recent questions and answers. They will also take visi...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Too subtle formatting of disabled pagination buttons

At the bottom of the Activity tab of my user profile page, there are buttons to move through the pagination of the results. There is a “Previous” button, several specific page number buttons, then ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Our site incubator concept needs a re-think

I don't know whether I like the following idea better or worse than the current approach with a tag for each proposed community, but I agree we could benefit from discussion of new ideas, so here's...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Community dropdown and profile information

Thanks for bringing this up. I agree; we need to add the concept of a network profile and have a GitHub issue for it. But we haven't gotten to it yet. Update 2024-10-02: We have just deployed a ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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