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Activity for Peter Taylor
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #291273 | Initial revision | — | 11 days ago |
| Question | — |
Some suggested edit use cases result in confusing diffs 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 entire body of the question with CSS classes `diff-new is-changed`, so at first view I thought that the edi... (more) |
— | 11 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290935 |
[A metric which becomes a goal ceases to be a useful metric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290756 |
The analogy with youtu.be would be to use subdomains of codida.ct instead of codidact.com. This runs into the showstopping problem that .ct isn't a registered CCTLD. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290418 |
I would instead describe the popup as common and *redacted* annoying. When I'm using a site and it pops up a modal dialog asking whether I would recommend that site I close the popup if I'm in a good mood or knock two points off my answer otherwise because the popup makes me less likely to recommend ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289581 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 $EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded meta-variables throughout the page. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287545 |
Bear in mind that this network grew out of a boycott of SO. The comparisons you get may be against SO three years ago because we don't know how it's evolved in the meantime. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287520 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Assets return 404 I saw I had a notification so I clicked for the dropdown, and got nothing. The browser console shows that `/assets/community/${community}.css` and `/assets/community/${community}.js` are 404ing (observed where `${community}` is `meta` and `math`, but probably more general). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286545 |
It's "shield", Unicode codepoint U+1F6E1, presumably representing the rôle of moderators as protecting the community. I suspect that if you want to propose an alternative it should also be a [Unicode emoji](https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html). (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280879 |
Still an issue: I saw https://languages.codidact.com/ca/posts/278643.png today. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
"Experts" overstates the requirement. If an expert has a question then probably only another expert can answer it, but unless a site really takes off it won't be where experts consult each other. If you can answer your own questions then you can almost certainly answer questions which other people at... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
Lenín, so potentially overlookable. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
People should probably be allowed to use their real name, even if it coincides with a historical figure. I personally know a César, and although it's not so common for Spanish names to include two given names (outside a handful of specific common pairs), I wouldn't be surprised if there are living pe... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285549 |
When you say "*About the only thing that should not be allowed...*", I assume that you're focussing on the context of this question, i.e. political statements. In a non-political setting we have had one case of moderating a user profile to remove a link to a porn site (which, to be clear, turned out ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
Example: person A is annoyed by something that person B says, so they open up person B's profile and downvote their 10 most recent posts. I've not seen this on Codidact, but I have been the person B on another Q&A network. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284972 |
It sounds like you're asking us to change Reddit's culture. Shouldn't this be asked on Reddit instead? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284973 |
An irrevocable license means that the granter can't change their mind about granting it. It doesn't mean that the recipient can't change their mind about needing it. The paragraphs about CC BY-SA are a complete red herring. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284762 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Question has phantom tag 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` and `statistics`; it shows in the question view as having tags `probability` and `statistics`; it ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284749 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
I wondered about merge, but I would have assumed it worked the other way round so thanks for the detailed warning. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284749 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
How can tags be deleted? 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 retagged to the correct spelling). In the interests of tidiness it would be nice to delete them, but even tho... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284748 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Ability to hide / ignore tags One approach, asymmetric with respect to the favourites, would be to treat an ignored tag as equivalent to X downvotes for display purposes. I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that questions with a score lower than some threshold are hidden unless you go actively looking for them. This wouldn't be a ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283934 |
Apparently some notifications work, because Monica responded in that thread, but *I* again failed to get a notification of Monica's comment despite being named in it *and* following the thread. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283934 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Missing comment notification 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't show it (and does show other notifications which I've marked as read). This might mean that the fi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283434 |
Post edited: Remove some nonsense markup which was rolled into the tag edit I just approved |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283434 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
500 Internal Server Error I've had a couple of 500 Internal Server Errors now when posting comments on the maths site. The most recent one has error ID e0788383-0163-4b45-8b4f-85ff84c2751a . This has only happened since I became a mod, so that might be related. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283053 |
@Istiak, the conclusion *I* drew is that you're asking for the wrong thing. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283053 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let SVG give a try for MathJax > But, I noticed in Wikipedia that they are using MathJax as SVG. Are you sure? As far as I can tell, Wikipedia doesn't use MathJax at all. They appear to have some backend renderer. > Whenever I copy text of that SVG I can copy "MathJax" (Maybe, Latex. The formatting little bit looks like ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282653 |
@#54114 it's generally most useful to consider tabletop RPGs and computer RPGs as completely different genres. I believe that the CRPGs which a D&D player would consider RPGs run to single digits at best. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282336 |
I think that the situation with Biblical Hermeneutics is an exception: at least part of the reason for separating it out was to get both Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew scriptures. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282348 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Threaded comments are here! > ## 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 the post. You'll be invited to type a comment and provide a name: There's some incon... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282120 |
@mattbrent, I'm not sure what "this" is in "the challenge with this", but if you're referring to moving the vote balance back to the left then I don't see how it affects height at all. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282107 |
Similarly, in the preview there is a button which says "Review answer" or "Review answers". I presume that the intent is to *view* them, but the most salient meaning of "review" here to me is *critique*. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282120 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted > 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). Actually I find that the thing which draws my eye is the coloured bar indicating the vote balance. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281856 |
Some questions about office suites fit Power Users, but not all. A separate site which covers office suites (entry-level questions and power user questions) would overlap, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281507 |
Re "Is there a way to add metadata that readers can use?", as a hack you can add a single-pixel image with alt text, but some screen readers will prefix the alt text with a standard hint that it's image alt text. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281252 |
https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/oRTG1Uw2e5eV1hBP8TBCPEZ1 (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280827 |
I would argue that it's the list in the footer that's superfluous, and breaking that symmetry might be one minimum hurdle for an argument to cross. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280826 |
@Lundin, and similarly the dashboard. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280405 |
Point 4 is based on a misunderstanding: it's not a description of the site, but of the category Q&A (Meta has different text there). Moving the text into the purple header might clarify the scope, although it wouldn't deal with the point that you really only need to read it once, not every time you v... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |