Peter Taylor‭

Working with volunteers is very different to working with paid staff, and if you try to bring the same expectations then you will cause problems. Paid staff have a contract: the hours and type of w...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

I have just observed a bug, and I'm not sure what the protocol is. Is bug reporting and tracking done on codidact.org, meta.codidact.com, or both? If both, and I can't find the bug mentioned on eit...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

When I type something in the tag box, a list of similarly named tags is produced, along with the actual thing I typed, and I can click to select the tag I want. If I type something with spaces (e.g...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

I started heading into the rabbit-hole of organising tags on the mathematics site, and there are some which are obvious typos and have no questions associated (because the questions have been retag...

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

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 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

This suggested edit on a math.codidact.com question appears to only add some tags. However, I had to open and compare the current status of the question to figure that out, because it shows the ent...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

Color is used more sparingly in this design, with the eye drawn to unanswered questions and the "ask" button (which is now in line with the list of questions rather than all the way to the right)...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

Using the mod tools to browse recent comments on math.codidact.com, I just noticed this comment which should ping me. I have no recollection of getting the ping, and my notifications dropdown doesn...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

Yesterday I edited https://math.codidact.com/posts/282737 to correct the spelling of the tag probability and remove the tag statistics. Now it shows in the question list as having tags probability ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

This is possibly a more extreme case of a bug reported by fedorqui: a Software Development question on regexes shows as having been edited, but its history contains neither the edit nor the origina...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

A factor to consider is that a community needs a decent flow of (quality) questions to entice people to stick around. I'm not sure how we assess that in advance. After reading the introductory...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

Posting comments You can add a comment to an existing thread from the full thread. ... You can create a new thread using the "start a new comment thread" button under the list of threads on th...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

I just handled some "not an answer" flags by converting an answer to a comment on another answer. The "convert to comment" dialog asks for a post ID. The obvious way to supply this was to copy a li...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

The question What good are herbivores in an animal army? currently shows up- and down-votes as +0/-0, and both vote counts have tooltips saying "0.5" when I hover over them in the question. (I don'...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

With respect to the comment thread https://math.codidact.com/comments/thread/9445 I make the following observations: I received notifications for the first three comments. I do not believe that...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Peter Taylor‭