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Activity for Peter Taylor
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #290935 |
[A metric which becomes a goal ceases to be a useful metric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) (more) |
— | 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 5 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Comment | Post #283053 |
@Istiak, the conclusion *I* drew is that you're asking for the wrong thing. (more) |
— | almost 3 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
— | about 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 |
| Comment | Post #279964 |
@PeterCooperJr, I think people who want to answer will do non-trivial research if it's a subfield that interests them, so maybe there's a mismatch between the aspects of Christianity which interest the questioners and the answerers. Mathematics and photography seem to be suffering from having people ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278671 |
There is some truth in the observation that people don't always vote for answers based on how well or cleverly they've been optimised for the goal, but this is at best half of a proposal. Votes are not cosmetic: they have a mechanical function. Even if powers aren't unlocked by rep, there will still ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278446 |
"*At least with private votes, they won't know who to target.*" You optimist, you. I've had revenge downvoting on SE when I left a comment pointing out deficiencies in an answer on multiple occasions, including IIRC some where it wasn't me who downvoted the answer. This is why you see quite a lot of ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
Editing tags as an extension to editing posts makes some sense, with a possible extension that people with lots of good content in a tag can edit the description of that tag. For tag creation, in a new site I think free-for-all might be the best option; in a mature site, maybe something like having g... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
Separately, one of the lessons I took from SE was that not allowing new users to comment has negative value. Either they have to abuse an answer to leave a comment, or valid critiques get lost because people don't want to (or remember to) come back after gaining rep from answers. IMO it would be bett... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
I don't understand the linkage between suggested edits and tag creation. Being good at proof-reading and reformatting text is a different skill to categorisation. Worse than that, not being able to create a tag can block someone from being able to post a question, especially in a newish site. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278267 |
@8063, I don't understand what you mean. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278241 |
I wondered whether it was intentional to try to build up a bit of sense of momentum in a semi-private beta. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277859 |
A1 is borderline: there is a lot of overlap between applied maths and theoretical physics. A2, A3, B1, B2 are clearly off-topic: the answer would primarily address something other than maths, and what in primary school is called arithmetic isn't "real" maths. (A3 could be heavily rewritten to an on-t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
@manassehkatz, *specific subfields* of maths have many symbols, but there aren't many which mean the same thing to all mathematicians. The tombstone (a) isn't specific to any subfield; (b) has a connotation not too far from "question answered"; (c) unlike, e.g. the axioms of propositional logic and Z... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
[png mockup](http://cheddarmonk.org/forumimg/maths-codidact-logo-idea-1-mockup.png) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
PS I kind-of think that there ought to be a joke about "didact -> coanswer", but that's a bit wordy for a background element of a logo, and the joke is probably funny at most once. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
Suggestion: the name "Mathematics" with M in blackboard bold, followed by the tombstone symbol. On a site with MathJax enabled (or [mathurl.com](http://mathurl.com)), `$\mathbb{M}\textrm{athematics}\blacksquare$` gives a mockup, although for a logo it might be nicer to change the aspect ratio of the ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277269 |
On the other hand, categories which are not Q&A may be more amenable to chat. E.g. in the photo contests on various sites, I would not object to people giving constructive criticism on my photos, and that is IMO closer to chat than to comments. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277007 |
As I commented on the earlier post, I'd be interested in participating. My main interest is enumerative combinatorics, although since one of my main replacements for SE as a source of intellectual stimulation was ProjectEuler I've also been learning a lot of number theory this year. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74999 |
Re "engineering is application of science and mathematics and therefore we should avoid giving lectures on these particular topics of mathematics": mathematicians and engineers probably have different perspectives (and possibly terminology) on areas like control theory, so there may be room for some ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75014 |
How is the migration set up for pulling questions from meta? There's a question on cooking.meta.stackexchange.com about vocabulary differences between dialects of English which is extremely detailed and useful. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
@Sigma, I suspect a tag for substitutions in the Q&A would be a better way of structuring that information. More generally, if this site were created then I could see myself writing a few answers; my particular interest is the science of cookery. Right now I'm not being experimental enough in the kit... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74893 |
I'm interested in a maths site, particularly enumerative combinatorics. But learning a lesson from SE, it would need a clear policy on "problem statement questions" (i.e. effortless homework posts and other questions which appear so to be) from the start and ruthless enforcement. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74831 |
I would participate, although I can't promise to contribute much beyond votes. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |