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| Comment | Post #74897 |
Or to put it another way: "I have a question about D&D... this looks like a good place to ask it ... _BUT WAIT! OH NO!_ They don't allow questions that aren't about D&D, and I play other games too. I guess I'll go somewhere else!" — I don't think that's going to happen. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74897 |
@Sigma: But see the numbers above. Is that really a problem? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74836 |
@Monica Yeah that should be just fine to start. Thanks! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74897 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Tabletop Role Playing Games Soooooo, maybe I'm in the minority here but I'll throw this out as a possibility. I'm a D&D fan. I'm not really interested in other tabletop RPGs — and in fact, I'd be most interested in a codidact site only about D&D. If I look at the top ten game system tags on rpg-se, I see, in order: `d... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74836 |
@Monica Cellio Can we make it so that 1) questions can't be asked in this category and 2) only people with a certain reputation level can move questions from the main Q&A? That's how I imagine this working. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74890 |
Since most of us who have shown up here share the interest in still photography over video, and since we decided to allow video but not make it a top-level category, I'm inclined to stick with "photography" as the name.
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| Comment | Post #74890 |
Hey site admins: could we have "photography" as the main URL and site name, and have "photo" redirect, for shorter typing?
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| Edit | Post #74890 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Photo-Video Codidact Site What should we choose for the URL? Candidates are: 1. photo.codidact.com 2. photography.codidact.com 3. photovideo.codicact.com 4. other? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74831 |
@Monica Cellio: let me see what some of the others want for the URL. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74831 |
@Peter votes is a good start :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74866 |
I think this is right. And I'm open to launching with the "tags in category description" idea — we'll be able to see if that's working and adjust if it's not. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
@Monica I'm envisioning this in combination with a required tags feature, where the list of filter tags exactly matches the required list.
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| Comment | Post #74847 |
I think in general, a site should look to serve a community of practice — a group of people who share a passion and continually interact as they follow that interest. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74835 |
@Michael C -- yeah, for full transparency, I have a high personal stake in setting up this site so that video questions can get answered and not cause ongoing conflict _yet_ I can still completely avoid them. :)
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
The filter idea seems like it could work! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74836 |
I am thinking primarily of Canonical Q&A. There's a series of questions like "What is aperture and how does it affect my photographs?" and "What is shutter speed..." that I think can easily benefit from multiple answers. There might be some wiki-style resources too, like the guide to obscure letters ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74837 |
@Monica That seems like a good start. A future feature might be a template or guided process.
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| Edit | Post #74837 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Photo-Video Codidact Site Special Needs for "Gear / Equipment Recommendation" ==== 1. Because cameras are a consumer tech good, they change rapidly. New models come out every month. This means that older recommendations have low value. It would be nice for them to become archived automatically. 2. There is no "best... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74836 |
I really like having different answers by different people from different perspectives _even for basic information_. Otherwise we could just link to Wikipedia. Sometimes we disagree on how to best present information, and different approaches work for different people. So, my suggestion is to keep th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74836 |
My opinion: I don't think we should have a _blog_ per se. (The Photo-SE blog didn't work out well.) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74836 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Photo-Video Codidact Site On the "Basics/Blog/FAQ/Guides" category Let's discuss that in comments here. I think we're all agreed that we want something like this, but I'm not sure we all agree on what it should look like. Plus we need to come up with a name. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74831 |
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| Edit | Post #74835 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Photo-Video Codidact Site I have edited the proposal title based on what I think is strong even if early consensus: we do want to combine photography and videography/cinematography. Use comments to this answer to discuss this. Note that I personally still have no interest in videography, so it'd be nice to have a couple of... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74831 |
Post edited: I think we have early consensus that we do want to include video. |
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| Edit | Post #74834 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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"show more comments" link not obvious If a post has a lot of comments, the last ones are hidden behind a "Show more comments" link. For some reason, even though I know it's there, I really have to think about it each time. "I thought I replied to this... did my comment get lost? ... oh yeah!" It would be nice to have this be more visi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
I could see it either as having the sub-categories repeat in each category, _or_ having different ones for each category. (Like under Contests & Critique, have... _Contests_ and _Critique_....)
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
Here's a question: could mandatory tags _also_ function as vertical slices? That is, have top-level categories be the five @scottbb suggests, and then within _each_ of those categories have a sub-menu branching into: "Still Photography", "Video & Cinematography", and "Computer Vision"? (For example. ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
Nope, not coming across badly either. :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
I hope I don't seem argumentative here. I'm legitimately trying to figure this out. :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
I'd love to be convinced that mandatory tags help with this in some way, but I don't see how. In fact, I think they might make it worse, as if I click on "Photography Q&A" and see a wall of questions tagged `computer-vision`, I might think "Oh, this isn't a good place to ask about choice of colors fo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74833 |
My particular concern is that when a site is overwhelmingly technical questions, people don't feel welcome asking artistic ones, and even have a tendency to gatekeep against them. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
… So to me categories serve both the function of vertical separation (overlapping but distinct communities of practice) and _invitation_ (validation that those communities of practice are welcome). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74832 |
My wish for all of these categories comes from a concrete problem at Photo-SE: people who are interested in some of these things _really don't like_ questions about some of the others. Questions about photography as an art routinely got responses like "that's not an answerable question" from people m... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74831 |
To me, the difference between a high-level ("category") grouping and the other axis of tag groupings is that vertical categories can focus the communities of practice around different interests, whereas tags are good for sorting, searching, and collecting related topics. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74831 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Photo-Video Codidact Site Update: Please visit and see this meta post. I'd like to launch a photography site. From looking at the Codidact network examples that are up and running already, I think it's time to get started! I do have a few questions! First and foremost: Who else would be interested in helping get... (more) |
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