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| 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 |
| Edit | Post #279964 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? > 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 paragraph I was planning to raise this if you didn't. I think it naturally ties into the assessing of i... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279711 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Vote counts broken by the update? 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't think the tooltips appear in the question list). I know that the question shouldn't be on +0/-0 bec... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279687 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Missing history 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 original revision. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278750 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Trap tags with spaces earlier in the post submission process 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. I noticed this with `prime numbers` on the software development site) then I can add a new tag with sp... (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 |
| Edit | Post #278498 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? With respect to licence types per category: the Photography & Video site default is CC BY-SA 4.0, but the Contests/Critique category within it defaults to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. On the other hand, Outdoors just uses the site default of CC BY-SA 4.0 for its Photo Contest category. If I had the option to set... (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 |
| Edit | Post #278267 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team? 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 work expected from them are explicitly stated, as is their compensation. If they don't see the point o... (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 |
| Edit | Post #277400 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Mathematics & Physics Community > In my opinion, mathematics and physics are interconnected; I think almost all theoretical physicists are mathematicians and many mathematicians are interested in physics subjects. This is even more true of computer science. Why not a Mathematics & Computer Science community? > - One advan... (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 |
| Edit | Post #74981 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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"Last activity" in question lists appears to ignore new answers Another thing I've noticed on https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 : the question list currently shows the last activity on "2020 - May - Birds" as "last activity 10 days ago by Isaac Moses". It's not clear to me what this activity was\, but certainly I posted an answer 3 days ago and I think ... (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 |
| Edit | Post #74969 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Deleted answers appear to be counted in question list Currently https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 lists one question, 2020 - May - Birds, with 12 answers. But if you go into the question, it only lists 11 answers. I'm pretty sure that the discrepancy is due to there being a deleted answer, because I saw a non-bird photo posted and it later dis... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #74955 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Bug reports: meta.codidact.com or codidact.org? 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 either, should I prefer to post it here or there? (My personal preference would be to favour here, becau... (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 |
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