Olin Lathrop‭

Please, no. With modern technology, we all get way too many nagware messages as it is. Let's not have Codidact add to that. It's easy enough to visit meta occasionally. And, there is already a m...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

What should be done in these cases? Should we just wait and let the site open? Should we train some monkeys to write questions? Should we "freeze" the site and provide the contents for download? Sh...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description. User...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Any text you didn't write yourself must be set off in a quote box and attributed. I believe this is already existing policy, and applies regardless of where the quoted text came from (like anoth...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Where is the documentation for the markdown codes used on these pages? I'm trying to RTFM, but can't find the M. I did look in HELP, but it's not there. Below where I'm typing this, there is a b...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

whether your votes are public or private by default I would probably use that, but it also shouldn't be a big deal to click the appropriate button at the time of voting. Maybe this is to make the ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Is there a way to send a message to a moderator without raising a flag? If yes, please explain. If no, consider this a feature request. I tried to send a message to a mod about a question that g...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

There is a pending edit on one of my posts. When I click on Review Changes, I get a page showing two versions of the post side by side. The problem is, there are no obvious changes. It's not even...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

I wrote an answer where I needed to say "square meters". I wanted to write this as "m" followed by a superscript "2". I tried writing "m²". That worked in the preview, so ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

I proposed the new site Electrical Engineering, and I see that the basic framework has been created. Thanks. However, there is a difference between the basic mechanics of a site, and a fully up-a...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Can the display order of help pages for a site be explicitly set somehow? I'm starting to create help pages for a new site, and would like to set the order they are shown in. For example, I'd like...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Some questions are closely related, and therefore are better combined in a single question post. Answering such individual questions separately would be more trouble, would likely require duplicat...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

I was just looking at Reports > Posts in the moderator tools of the Electrical Engineering site: The total numbers of questions, answers, and comments is believable. However, these don't agr...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Users should be able to say what they want in their profile. I think of that as personal space. About the only thing that should not be allowed is a direct insult to another member. As with anyt...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭