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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 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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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 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

I think there's nothing wrong with a community deciding to be multilingual or non-English monolingual, but given the impacts on moderation requirements, site technology, usage patterns, etc., I thi...

posted 8mo ago by r~~‭

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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 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by r~~‭

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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 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Feature request: direct messages

I don't believe this is something that we're considering for the general userbase, for several reasons. Our mission The mission of the Codidact Network is to provide a space for communities to sh...

posted 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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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 8mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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

The exchange that provoked this question, happened on one of my answers. I wrote the response to you, to acknowledge your helpful comment, and to notify you that you were indeed right. In addition...

posted 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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

I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess...

5 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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

There are some good reasons to prevent question deletion when answers exist. There are users that believe the correct course of action is to "clean up" their instance of communication on the site, ...

posted 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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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 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

Before I found out about the explicit closure reasons in the interface, this is the proposed set I was working on: Duplicate Description: self-explanatory. Commentary: here is still an open ques...

posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A User preferences behaviour inconsistent with advice

I think saving the text even when closing a window is good, we should just change the explanation to Changes are automatically saved

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Q&A User preferences behaviour inconsistent with advice

A preferences problem highlighted in an answer on Software Development Meta appears to have been somewhat fixed, but leaving an inconsistency with the guidance on the preferences page. At the top ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason?

I generally don't think this is a good idea. As you note, status-completed tags work fine for noting that a Meta process has run its course. If such a process has run its course - why not use the s...

posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Let's improve how we handle duplicates

Psychology In sum: I think the social problems here have more to do with communication than they do with policy, and I'm extremely wary of softening policy in order to avoid hurting anyone's feeli...

posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

Yes, we need to clean things up For a Q&A site to come across as useful, the chaff simply needs to be separated from the wheat. We can't expect external search engines to care about our intern...

posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

This is a good suggestion, and I thought "oh, just adding another button there -- that might be easy enough that even I can do it!". And then I realized there's something else we ought to address ...

posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Discoverability for the new Proposals site

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact ...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How should we phase out the Site Proposals category?

Currently the old Site Proposals category points to the new Proposals community, presumably as a temporary measure until people get used to the new community. This is not ideal, as described in the...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Discoverability for the new Proposals site

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Co...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across. Welcome to Codidact! Thank you for sharing your suggestions for improvem...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

Just like on SE, things are vastly different between individual sites. You say you came from StackOverflow. Our most similar site is Software Development. It does seem to have reasonable activit...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

https://meta.codidact.com/policy/privacy-policy currently begins This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under ​$EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Mithical‭