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Q&A Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response

It would be bad to prevent deleting questions by simply commenting on them, because the comments could point out why the question actually can't be salvaged from OP's perspective. Currently, commen...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

It is worth noting that we don't need to have the thread be deleted. Threads on Codidact can be locked and archived. Archived threads are still available for viewing, but cannot be commented on[1] ...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Feature request: direct messages

In addition to what Mithical said (+1), if we do ever get a direct message system, it must be opt-out by default. In other words, it must take a deliberate action by a user before they can receive...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How should we approach non-English content?

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online?

We don't have a form, but you can email us to request this. From the privacy policy: As an international organisation, we extend the rights granted by the EU GDPR to everyone. Therefore, all ou...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags

Thanks for the report. The approval failed because the edit added a moderator-only tag -- default-rules on Code Golf, like the status-* tags, can only be added by moderators. But they can be sugg...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it

I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A "Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option

We have a change pending to remove this non-flag from the flag list. (There's a story there that I'll get back to.) To the point raised in another answer, people can still use "other" to request ...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Outline of what makes a high quality question

For a QA site to be good, it's important to have high-quality questions. The community is a great resource for guiding askers with the technical tools that CD provides. However, it is helpful for t...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Notification on edits to voted post

When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You mig...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Display post titles instead of the URL for internal links

Currently, when pasting a link to somewhere on Codidact, into posts or comments, the link is rendered in the output the same way it's written in the post source; that is, the URL. The parser should...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow

Monica already gave a good explanation of the issues with imports, so I'll focus on the other approaches described. About question selection We could just focus on the obscure questions to attr...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Probationary shadowban for new accounts

If it's possible to characterize the problem as being caused by "That Guy" - i.e., a singular person behind it all - then unless the problem involves a botnet or something, it's small enough that w...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page

The ability is based on the Wilson score of all your edit suggestions, yes, so that one declined one counts against you. There's been lots of discussion about (a) whether the thresholds are too hi...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Add an explicit Markdown syntax for decorative images

When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitti...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits

Apparently the owner of a post cannot approve a pending suggested edit on that post. I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but either way, I propose that the post owner should...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits

This is a bug in the front end (fix is under review now), but despite the incorrectly-shown message, you can in fact approve edits to your own posts. The buttons are active and they work. We're s...

posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I "answer" a feature request or a bug report?

For bugs, you can use answers to add more information if you have it, for example if you've seen the reported problem under different circumstances or if you have seen something work that is report...

posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do we want to organize the help center?

Jon Ericson raised an interesting point in a recent Meta post: I don't understand how the help page is organized. Oh wait! It's alphabetical by the title of the article. That's why "Advanced for...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What help pages need to be written?

I wondered what the scope of the Linux Systems site was. So I went to the help center. There's no obvious page in there that explains what this site is. For instance, is this site accepting questi...

posted 12mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Add pending suggested edits to the dashboard

The Dashboard is an easy way to get an overview of the whole network at a glance; on a single page, you can see where there's been new activity that you haven't seen yet, on a category-by-category ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered on Dashboard

I have been noticing a lot more unexplained activity bumps too lately. I thought it was because spam or whatever got deleted, and I couldn't see those deletions as an ordinary user. However, this...

posted 11mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers

In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones. Yes. Community moder...

posted 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why do we have "General comments" threads?

I'm one of the offenders, and the answer is quite simple: I often don't know what else to name it, even after several minutes of hard thinking. I want commmenting to be a task of ease, not a task o...

posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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