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Activity for Peter Cooper Jr.
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #282240 |
I'm not active on Arqade.SE, so I don't know what "Many of the topics in Arqade are allowed here, even including certain policies when asking about questions" exactly means. Would asking for video game recommendations be on topic? Would asking for more people to join an online game be on topic? I sus... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282242 |
I sometimes get a chance to play video games, and would probably participate in this community casually on occasion. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
The term "gaming" by itself brings very different things to mind for different people: Some think of tabletop (physical card/board/roleplaying/etc.) games, some think of video games like you do, and some think of gambling (casinos/poker/etc.). Of course, there's some overlap with board games that can... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276994 |
I just added a `(VTT)` in my proposal to help people understand the acronym. Games and discussion thereof tend to have a *lot* of jargon. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275836 |
@corporat You mean, would questions on how to script some particular behavior in Roll20 or Anydice to implement an RPG mechanic or whatever be on topic? My initial inclination is sure, why not, especially if a community develops that could answer them. I'm by no means wanting to be the on-topicness-d... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276994 |
@Quintec I don't think you're "a bit late", we're all just pretty much waiting around for people just like you to come and join! (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280494 |
Your specific question seems really broad, and is assuming some concept of "role" that not all tabletop RPGs share. Given some specifics, and if it could work for a human-mediated game (even one primarily played through an electronic platform), then I think it could be made to fit. Others might disag... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280494 |
Just to be clear, you're talking about developing a *video game* RPG, right? I think questions about developing tabletop RPGs and game design around that would fit, but I'm not sure about video game rules design. Some might fit (if say, it's a question that could apply to tabletop game design as well... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275836 |
I've also just added a section on desired technical features for the community. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280403 |
@ArtOfCode Hmm, maybe. In terms of technical changes I was thinking more of an "I'm working on an answer" button of some sort, which might handle cases where I'm doing research but haven't yet started formulating an answer. But having a standard just be starting a draft just might be good enough. I'd... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275836 |
I've added a proposed summary (per the needs-summary tag), changed LARPs to be explicitly on-topic (along with play-by-post style that I thought of as being on-topic but wasn't clear on), and (per suggestion of @tommi) added history and terminology to the on-topic list. (I don't know what is meant by... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280225 |
Is there a group of people from Reddit that are looking to move to a different platform and are considering Codidact? I think this kind of community *could* be interesting if it gets a critical mass of people, but I'm not sure how it's going to get them since it looks really broad. Is the goal to col... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
Definitely be sure to check your spam folder. Microsoft's Exchange Online Protection definitely didn't like the message. Not sure if the line about "too good to be true" might have made it seem less reliable to their computers. :) But thank you! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279964 |
I think it's also worth noting that the "skill" needed to answer (and thus the number of enthusiasts & casual visitors who can readily contribute answers) likely varies by topic. Christianity.codidact has had several questions sitting around for a long time with no answers, I suspect in part because ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279729 |
I might go so far as to call it a duplicate. :) Thanks for pointing it out; apparently my searching before posting this wasn't thorough enough. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278495 |
I don't know if there's easy support in browsers, but it might be nice to have an even more WYSIWYG option and have code blocks automatically monospace with non-code areas proportional. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279390 |
@Wikis Well, I partly just didn't want to overlap with Writing and Speculative Science, and I think the intent would mainly asking questions about other peoples' work rather than on how to create works of ones own. Maybe that idea doesn't need to be in the name, though, just in how the community ends... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279390 |
Maybe something like "Published Fiction"? I'm assuming you don't want to include stories I'm coming up with myself (which would be more likely to go on Writing or Speculative Science), and while I don't want to nitpick what counts as "published" I think including some terms along those lines gets ac... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
@Lundin Just to argue the other side, it can be really hard to define "fantasy" without suddenly realizing you're encompassing all of fiction. And it's really frustrating to have questions and not sure where to get answers, with just "it's off topic here" being a reason to not get them even where the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278884 |
@Nathaniel. Hmm, thanks. I guess I'm thinking of asking questions where I do want to see the wide range of interpretations and would want voting to be on what makes the most sense of a passage, as opposed to questions specifically asking for some specific tradition's view. For the latter I definitely... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279001 |
Is there an existing community at one of those places that's looking for a new platform? Are there people who are likely to stick around to try to answer these kinds of questions? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
It may also be helpful to describe just what exactly someone is "signing up" to support if they agree to participate. Is that promising to visit the site some number of times daily/weekly/etc. for some number of weeks/months/years and vote on what they see? Is that promising to write some number of q... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278884 |
@curiousdannii I guess it's that I think of "citing one's sources" (of whether it's your own thinking/interpretation or that of someone else) as being part of an answer, rather than part of what a question is asking for? Again it's probably since I wasn't active on the respective SE sites, but is the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278894 |
There are plenty of scripts that people use for names that I don't know how to pronounce, and plenty of ways to use Latin characters in ways that aren't pronounceable or that might cause confusion with other users. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278963 |
I'm just brainstorming alongside you; please don't take any of my comments as criticism. I *do* like the idea, I'm just trying to figure out how to help it succeed. I think a big list of initially on-topic and off-topic example questions would be helpful for defining the scope. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278963 |
It just might be easier and run into less legal issues if the focus is on understanding the laws and how to comply rather than questions that might be likely to be about skirting laws. I'm no lawyer, though, and maybe trying to answer legal questions is a bigger minefield? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278963 |
@luap42 Thanks for your answers. I wonder if might make sense to try to start with a narrower scope of e-privacy (maybe just related to privacy laws like GDPR/CCPA/etc.), and make clear if you're looking for questions from the consumer's point of view or the company's or both. And then maybe broaden ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278884 |
I have to say that I didn't quite understand the difference between the Christianity and Hermeneutics site, though my interaction with them was mostly when something popped up on HNQ. (I think I asked one question on one of them once.) I think it makes sense for questions to get answers both from wha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
I also think we could do some standardization of wanting some "good example questions" ahead of time (like Area51.SE required), and probably even some "off-topic example questions" (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
As someone who *really* wants an RPG community, I agree that we don't yet have enough people to take off. For any community, we don't just need "participants", we need "answerers" and other people willing to write high-quality content regularly. It's a big commitment, really. For many communities her... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278833 |
Maybe something like "Power User"? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278775 |
Might this end up being something like AskReddit? I could see *some* sort of "general chat" being fun and maybe even useful, but I think this needs a way of describing what kinds of answerers it's hoping to attract and how to attract them, and just generally more details beyond "any question ever". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278764 |
Thanks, though I wasn't trying to throw out all your hard work trying to figure out how to categorize such a broad subject either! I'm also curious if you could describe a bit more what kinds of things would be on or off topic. Given that the subject matter can easily turn controversial, and involve ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278764 |
For someone who isn't a theologian immersed in the terminology used in that tagging system it could be a bit off-putting. When I think of the kinds of questions I might want to ask it seems like there's a lot of overlap between them (since I might want to know both what Biblical texts say as well as ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278765 |
I definitely have interest, though I'm not sure I'm ready to sign up for more than "casual visitor" at this stage. I have a good chunk of background (at least from a Baptist/Protestant perspective) but no formal theological training. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275836 |
I'm wary of *just* calling it "roleplaying" due to my trying to exclude Computer RPGs (Skyrim/Legend of Zelda/Final Fantasy/etc.) to try to keep *some* focus, but maybe (1) including them might be okay, or (2) excluding them but still calling the site "Roleplaying" without any "tabletop"-type qualifi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275836 |
I'm happy to include LARP if there are community members for asking and answering those questions (just I personally have done very little in that regard so I'm not as familiar with it), and I certainly didn't mean to exclude RPG by chat/forum/etc. (In my mind that was included amongst other electron... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276994 |
As you may have gathered, I stopped checking Codidact regularly (until I got the most recent newsletter, thanks for that!) since there didn't seem to be *quite* enough interest yet. I'm glad that more people have shown interest over the past few months, though. You can put me down as someone willing ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276275 |
Mozilla Developer Network has a [nice article on image types and current browser support](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Image_types); I'd recommend accepting apng, gif, ico, jpeg, png, svg, & webp. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276275 |
Might I suggest also adding webp? It's gaining some significant acceptance and I think is now in all browser but legacy IE. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276185 |
Thank you. And yes, editing licenses definitely opens a can of legal worms. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276175 |
We may also want to put some thought in how we show the licensing info for comments. It's a little weird that the license I picked for my post isn't what the comments would be licensed under, and could get real awkward if there's a suggestion posted in a comment, which a post author than adopts, but ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276175 |
And I would totally agree that "hiding" it under some "Advanced" link or whatnot could be useful. It may also be nice to link to some help page (either one hosted here or [the one at Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/)) on what the differences are. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276141 |
I think one "site" for "programmers" or "software engineers" (whichever term one prefers) makes sense, as that's largely the "professional identity" that I (and probably others) would identify with. I also wonder if thinking of organizational structure options being only "site", "category", and "tag"... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275972 |
There are editors that support Markdown directly as a language in and of itself, which can be useful too for "offline" composing. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
I like the idea of something a bit more focused than "all programming", and certainly I'd love to have help learning about using all those new-fangled cloud technologies. But since a lot of usage can involve "traditional" programming as well, could I ask questions, about, say Node if I'm using it for... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
@Monica I've thought of another "feature" that would be really helpful: Spoiler blocks of some sort, that hide content from home/search snippet and until explicitly interacted with. Sometimes there are questions (or answers) involving published adventures that some people may not want to see yet in c... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275785 |
In general, I think splitting out into a ton of subcategories to start with would be counterproductive. Maybe once we get enough people and questions that they start to get overwhelming, it makes more sense to then figure out how to best split them out into groups that help make them more manageable.... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275785 |
2) I wouldn't separate Crunch/Fluff/Metagaming at *all* (unless *maybe* with tags) since I see it all as being intertwined, trying to create an environment and using rules to help tell a story together. Some game systems might be more amenable to that categorization than others, I suppose, but many r... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275785 |
Yeah, I'm not completely thrilled with this proposal, though I'd certainly participate if this is what happened. 1) I'm not a fan of naming it "The Tavern", as that sounds more like it's about homebrewing (as in beers, not as in rules) and there's plenty of games using other settings that a tavern wo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |