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Activity for Olin Lathrop‭

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Comment Post #291160 <blockquote> It could also be that the seed community failed to form an attractive culture, and early adopters gave up on it.</blockquote> But that's not what happened. All the posts are still there. You can see for yourself.
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1 day ago
Comment Post #291160 <blockquote>I have contributed more content on those sites post pre and post migration than anyone else</blockquote> Not true. I have contributed more on the Photography site than you or anyone else, as judged by all the other users. I just checked, and my rep is 961 versus your 557. Everyone e...
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2 days ago
Edit Post #291148 Post edited:
4 days ago
Edit Post #291148 Initial revision 5 days ago
Answer A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered?
site culture seems to be more like the "quality content" group. This is counter-productive to growing the site. Absolutely not! We strive to be a site where people can come to get good, reliable, peer-reviewed answers. Everything follows from that. As good questions result in good answers, ...
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5 days ago
Comment Post #291121 This isn't some free for all site where anyone can blurt out anything. We are trying to build a repository of <i>quality</i> questions and answers. Unfortunately what is in the overall site interest is not always in each individual user's interest. Most get it, and refrain from doing things detrim...
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5 days ago
Comment Post #291121 <blockquote>so that other people can post an answer if they want.</blockquote> That's exactly what we want to avoid. If bad questions weren't closed, then there will always be some do-gooder that wants to help the poor OP, people that just want to answer to look smart, and anyone else that looks ...
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6 days ago
Comment Post #291094 Even better, just lose those stupid minimums in the first place.
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10 days ago
Comment Post #291043 NO! The default should always be no-nag.
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18 days ago
Comment Post #290856 A single static picture would have sufficed, with maybe an arrow or circle drawn over it to point out the button.
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20 days ago
Comment Post #290856 Maybe others find it helpful, but to me these animations are annoying and make it more difficult to understand your point. Something moving around while you're trying to get context and orient yourself is really distracting.
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22 days ago
Edit Post #290968 Initial revision 30 days ago
Answer A: Should we change the dashboard layout?
Let's not. The community order makes little sense as it is now (based on creation date?), but at least it is fixed. It's arbitrary, but you get used to where things are. It would be even worse if things moved around. Resources would be better spent on a customizable network-wide dashboard per u...
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30 days ago
Comment Post #290941 Please, no animated <i>anything</i>!
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #290917 Shouldn't this be on the Collab site? I thought that was the place for discussing the software itself.
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #290845 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Question Going back in browser encourages accidental duplicate posting.
I wrote an answer to a question, followed a link somewhere, then went back in the browser (Alt back-arrow in my case). Somehow I managed to go back from where the answer was posted. I saw my answer in the edit window, and thought to myself "Oops, looks like I forgot to click SUBMIT", so did that....
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #290843 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: Minor suggested edits to old posts
I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually none. One suggested edit made the title longer without adding any meaning, thereby making it worse. In most cases, the only change was the addition of a tag. The fact the quest...
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #290736 You're completely ignoring the point that we don't want to see all those edits. Activities like you suggest would have to bump those posts that were changed. That could drown out the new content that we do want to know about. We don't want to dissipate volunteer energy on all those intermediate ...
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #290736 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer A: A refactoring convenience function.
If you want to evolve multiple questions from a long writeup, do it outside the site. There is nothing preventing you from writing as much text as you want as fast as you want into a file on your own system. Then, when you're ready, you can break up the brain dump into individual coherent posts. Y...
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #290680 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer A: I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it
If we let authors close their own questions, it should only be allowed if there are no answers. I wouldn't want to spend time on an answer to have it stuck in a closed question because the OP is planning on changing the question. Once an answer has been written, the question shouldn't change in mea...
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #290649 Post edited:
2 months ago
Comment Post #290648 That response belongs in this thread, not where you put it. I deliberately created two comment threads because they were about two different topics. This one was supposed to be about examples where you didn't think a suitable title was possible. The other is about the principle that it really shou...
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2 months ago
Edit Post #290650 Initial revision 2 months ago
Answer A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself?
Others have already pointed out that self-answering is not only allowed, but even encouraged when you've got some insight you think would be of value to others. Over at the Electrical Engineering site we've even taken this a step further with the Papers category. It can be a more appropriate way ...
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2 months ago
Comment Post #290648 <i>"I often don't know what else to name it"</i> is a cop-out, and is an excuse trying to give yourself permission to be irresponsible. Link to a few such comments. We can probably come up with reasonable titles that tell you <i>something</i> about the content.
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2 months ago
Comment Post #290648 This is advocating sloppy practice that makes it harder for everyone else to use the system. You know what you just wrote. You can always find a few words that give some hint what the larger comment is about.
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2 months ago
Edit Post #290649 Initial revision 2 months ago
Answer A: Why do we have "General comments" threads?
The "General comments" title is a left-over from earlier versions of the software that didn't have comment titles. When the threaded comments were introduced, and thread titles with them, existing comments were put into a "General comments" thread. Every new thread should have a meaningful title....
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2 months ago
Edit Post #290495 Initial revision 3 months ago
Answer A: New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered on Dashboard
I have been noticing a lot more unexplained activity bumps too lately. I thought it was because spam or whatever got deleted, and I couldn't see those deletions as an ordinary user. However, this morning I saw an activity indicator on the Electrical Engineering meta category. I'm a moderator the...
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3 months ago
Edit Post #288918 Post edited:
3 months ago
Edit Post #290394 Initial revision 4 months ago
Answer A: What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development?
None currently, as I understand the scope of the existing communities.
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4 months ago
Comment Post #290293 What's a "decorative" image?
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4 months ago
Edit Post #290033 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts?
Not allowing fluff was the norm Elsewhere, and I consider it the norm here unless explicitly stated to the contrary. I am not aware of a community here that has stated they like content-free greetings, closings, and the like. I would therefore feel free to edit out such fluff, preferably shortly ...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #289991 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact?
Clutter refers to the unwanted or uninteresting stuff you have to dispense with before getting to what you want. On a Q&A site, that usually means low quality questions. These questions clutter up the site so that when you look around for good questions the low quality ones get in the way and make ...
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6 months ago
Edit Post #289918 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: Outline of what makes a high quality question
Your three pillars seem like a good way to describe three orthogonal aspects of question quality. However, you have devalued your own "question" here by introducing personal values onto your three pillars. If this question is about the three pillars, whether you agree how they should be valued or...
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6 months ago
Comment Post #289879 If you are really after visibility, then use your real name. Unless your company is called "OverLordGoldDragon Consulting, Inc", then positive contributions associated with that name won't do you any good.
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6 months ago
Comment Post #289730 You have now edited the question to change it in a major way, invalidating existing answers. If you want to ask something different from the original question, ask a new question. Flagging for moderator attention.
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6 months ago
Edit Post #289734 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more
Go ahead and flag the whole comment thread as no longer needed. I'm a moderator on EE, and wouldn't mind receiving such a flag. Maybe some day when site activity gets much higher that might be an issue, but not now nor any time soon. I'd rather get the flag than have a useless comment hanging ...
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6 months ago
Edit Post #289733 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: Feature request: direct messages
In addition to what Mithical said (+1), if we do ever get a direct message system, it must be opt-out by default. In other words, it must take a deliberate action by a user before they can receive direct messages. facilitate some misunderstands and clarification if those without the need for a pu...
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6 months ago