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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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| Edit | Post #293619 | Initial revision | — | 3 days ago |
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A: Should comments have unsupported tags warnings like posts? Yes, this is a good idea. I have run into this. Only last week I tried to use something like the <sup> tag, and I only found out it didn't work in a comment after the comment was posted. Even better would be to support all the same "small" tags that main posts do. <sup> and the like... (more) |
— | 3 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293615 |
Code blocks don't belong in comments. (more) |
— | 3 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293596 |
Your question makes no sense since there is no concept of "accepting" an answer in Codidact. (more) |
— | 8 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293566 |
I don't know what a "list page" is supposed to be. (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289816 |
On the question you newly linked to, I see the additional "c" tag in the editor that is not shown when viewing the post normally. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293486 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Link to moderator help pages is presented to non-moderators Here's a different take. Let everyone see the moderator help pages. Having ordinary users understand the view of moderators and what they can and can't do doesn't sound like a bad thing, and fosters a feeling of openess. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #288790 |
@#98866 Also note that the question currently has four answers, and this answer has the *least* positive vote of all of them. The vote tally seems high for Codidact, until you compare it to the other answers. Put another way, it only seems high due to high overall volume, but not in a relative sens... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288790 |
@#98866 Apparently this (now deleted) user doesn't like something that he perceives to be the culture of "Silicon Valley". He is expressing satisfaction that the Code of Conduct does NOT try to push whatever he thinks a "Silicon Valley ideological agenda" is. That means he thinks said agenda is bad... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293279 |
In that case those links used directly by the software should be settable. Hard-coding constants into software is bad practice anyway. If links, like those to context-sensitive help about formatting posts, are settable per site, then they can be pointed to site-specific help pages, which can refer ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
@#53890 Help pages should definitely be in a separate directory, not necessarily related to links from the top level help. Let me create a pile of pages, then have them link to each other as I like.
As for showing tree structure, I'd want something that uses different font characteristics for dee... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293279 |
All the pages that are assumed by the software should not be site-specific anyway. They should be stored someplace centrally, where the help of each site can link to. Codidact could still retain control over editing those pages, but how/when they are presented within the broader overall help can be... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
Ah, sorry, it's been a while since I wrote help topics. I forgot about sequence number and that they are hidden. I remember now that one of the problems is that there is no way to show hierarchy. The best I could find was putting a leading dash in a title name to sortof show it is subordinate to t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
Sequence numbers are a distraction to readers. The titles are already in a sequence, so the numbers are not useful to the reader. We need a mechanism of ordering topics that doesn't show the dirty laundry to the user. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
I am using Microsoft Edge, which Microsoft automatically updates when they feel like it. Right now it says "Version 131.0.2903.146 (Official build) (64-bit)". (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Help page: call for improvement suggestions The presentation you show is not optimized for what people should be coming to Help for. The help topics are also in a rather arbitrary hierarchy, and not showing the relative importance or order that things should be read by a new user. For example, most of the Policy stuff should be reference a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
I have also noticed this. It's happened to me maybe four times in the last year. It doesn't happen most of the time, and I haven't noticed any pattern that might trigger it. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293200 |
Deletion isn't for putting posts aside until they are improved. That's what closing a question is for. Even then, authors rarely make the requested improvements, and closed questions are rarely re-opened. Deletion is for post that simply don't belong, like spam, vulgarity, or otherwise outright no... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292992 |
Questions about the software itself, how to use it, how to set up and instance and the like go on the Collab forum, https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292886 |
So it does a page reload. You haven't explained why that's supposed to be bad. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I was notified of the new post by the gray dot in the sites overview page. There is no need to be part of chat to see new posts. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292847 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Poll for number of chat users and preferences about chat platform I don't use the chat associated with Codidact for three reasons: It's a waste of time. If there is something to talk about that would be content in one of the Q&A sites, then that's where it should be. If it's related but not thought out well enough to be a proper Q&A question, then it's not rea... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
You need to think thru what happens as the actions that granted an ability decay over time. Old actions decaying by becoming less relevant to current calculations makes sense, but what should happen when a user becomes less active? At the least, enabling abilities needs to have some hysteresis. An... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
Another possibility is instead of forcing all the experimental sites into one site so that the whole thing is easier to monitor, create a mechanism to easily monitor multiple sites.
This would be useful for ordinary users too. I'd like to be able to create a list of sites to "monitor", then have ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
It seems you are jumping thru hoops to make the single incubator site look and feel like separate sites. I'm assuming the software is there to create the separate sites rather easily. The only difference is that these sites would be down one level.
I see your point about the admin burden, but yo... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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— | 7 months ago |
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— | 7 months ago |
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Post edited: Fixed name of proposed sites to "experimental". |
— | 7 months ago |
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— | 7 months ago |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292601 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Our site incubator concept needs a re-think Here is a mechanism that addresses some of the problems: Each proposed new site is a full site in the structural sense. It has all the proposed categories, including meta. These sites would be in a single container that is at the same level as the full sites. This container would be called Ex... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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| Edit | Post #292599 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Our site incubator concept needs a re-think Background Starting new sites here at Codidact has evolved over time, mostly as we got experience and realized we needed to do something different. Originally, new sites would be proposed here on meta, kicked around, then fully created if it felt right. That sortof worked when Codidact was n... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292521 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Voting on a closed question Yes, these options should continue to be active. A bad question is a bad question, and it is legitimate to downvote it because of that. The fact that it might be fixed later has no bearing on it being bad now. Perhaps there should be a way to notify downvoters when a question is re-opened so tha... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
*"posts in the Incubator Q&A (questions as well as answers). Not the proposals."*
In that case, people are voting on the specific posts, not passing judgement on the overall site proposal. Questions in the Q&A category of the proposals site are intended to be examples showing both desirable and u... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
I just went to check the latest site proposals and was reminded that there is no voting on proposals. Users can endorse them at different levels, but can't up or down vote proposals. I had forgotten about that and took it at face value that your proposals were getting downvoted when I wrote my prev... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
I take the negative votes to mean those users think the proposal is flawed. They believe (I presume) that the proposal in its current form would not be a benefit to Codidact, or that it would be a significantly higher benefit if fixed.
Unfortunately, the site proposal mechanism doesn't allow for ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
*"everybody who should upvote to embrace a new idea, is just not voting at all."*
So you are the official judge of what should be voted on and how!!? You might stop and consider that maybe, just maybe, the non-voters don't think much of the proposal. I know, what a shocker! Some people have the... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292455 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
If you have such a large image, it is very likely that it contains way more detail than necessary. If you let the system compress it, then you have no control over what detail exactly gets removed. There are many image editing tools out there. Cropping the image to strip off the irrelevant areas, ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |