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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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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. (more) |
— | 22 days 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... (more) |
— | 23 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... (more) |
— | 26 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 ... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291094 |
Even better, just lose those stupid minimums in the first place. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291043 |
NO! The default should always be no-nag. (more) |
— | about 1 month 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. (more) |
— | about 1 month 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. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290941 |
Please, no animated <i>anything</i>! (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290917 |
Shouldn't this be on the Collab site? I thought that was the place for discussing the software itself. (more) |
— | about 2 months 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 ... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | 3 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. (more) |
— | 3 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. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290293 |
What's a "decorative" image? (more) |
— | 5 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. (more) |
— | 7 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. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
My comment about English not being everyone's first language was meant to show that we understand, and give some slack accordingly. The occasional misspelling or wrong tense is forgiven, especially when the writer appears to be trying. We understand spelling and grammar rules can be tricky.
Howe... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
<i>i dont and will never capitalize a random word becuase its norm, its dumb.</i>
That's not a good strategy. Every language has its quirks. Some developed over time and can seem arbitrary and silly today. However that doesn't mean you get to ignore them if you want to be taken seriously. Capi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289269 |
For #1, let there always be a checkbox. It is then something the reviewer approves along with the changed text.
#2 seems overly complicated. I don't see the advantage of bumping after a delay. The end result is the same after a short period of time.
In general, trust people to indicate wheth... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289208 |
As long as this is optional and not the default, I don't care. Personally, I find 2FA annoying. I just want to get on with things, and now I have to find my phone, go fetch email (possibly on a different computer), or whatever. It's always a hassle. I put up with it in cases where it matters, lik... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289214 |
What's the point of having a limit. The description should be as long or short as it takes to provide the proper guidance. Only humans can judge that. Nannyware imposing arbitrary min and max lengths doesn't increase quality. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
I gave you the tag editing ability (while I was in there already giving you the post editing ability) yesterday. You should be able to do these things, if there available from the system at all. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
I'll let the admins answer this question, but please don't use the workaround of creating and deleting a dummy question. That triggers various activity indicators and possibly notifications, would look really bad on the front page for a while, etc. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289119 |
This is an aside to your valid question here. However, in that tag wiki, div doesn't make any sense. You are trying to give a range of forward voltage for different LEDs. A dash would convey that. The DIV symbol specifically means divide. You're not dividing the two LED voltages. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289109 |
Thanks. The picture helped a lot. I never noticed that button before. (Or maybe I did at one time, and forgot about it since then. Looking back, I must have used it in the past for other user-specific actions). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289109 |
I'm not seeing any "privileges" option in moderator tools. See screen shot in updated question. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289013 |
Why do we need any of this? Users can already put whatever links they want, presented in whatever way they want, in their profile. And, there is no maximum limit or any additional fields to fill in. I don't see why Codidact should have special facilities to point to a few pre-chosen selected place... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
@#53890 I only access Codidact from a desktop. The issue is that I didn't read everything in your post. I read the title and looked at some of your example, and they all seemed to have scroll bars. I didn't notice that the two very long lines you show didn't have scroll bars, as that didn't seem t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
@#60967 Then the title needs to be fixed. That was certainly not clear from a quick skim. The point seemed to be about long lines, not lacking scroll bars. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
That makes sense. There is no legitimate reason to post an empty message. That's probably an accident anyway, so good to trap. Otherwise, keep the system out of the way of author intent. +1 (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
@Monica Yes, I apparently meant "animated". I didn't now what the correct official term was. I edited my post to fix this. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288609 |
Just do it. As you say, that should have been the default anyway. Having to discuss this on meta on every site will just add noise, take a long time, and sometimes never reach a clear consensus. If you just do it and explain after the fact, I doubt there will be much drama. Think of this it as a ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288421 |
It's not clear when criteria are combined by AND or OR. Your second example also doesn't take general site experience into account. 10 edits with 75% success might be a good threshold for a newbie, but an established user with 50 posts, 95% positive, and an average +2 per post should be allowed to ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288235 |
You use the terms "ActivityPub" and "Fediverse" without definition. No, I'm not going to chase them down just to understand your post. You're the one trying to make a point, so it's your job to explain specialized jargon with a sentence or two. You can then link to more detailed information if you... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288122 |
I just realized that filters would need and option to show your own questions regardless of score (or other rules) to be the default for new users. Otherwise, if someone posts a question and it gets downvoted it will seem to have disappeared. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288122 |
Nice work. It looks like a filter can be built that only shows posts with 0 or positive score. That might be a good default for new users. It should give a better first impression. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287889 |
I would say that the votes on the previous law community proposal you linked to was due to how very poorly it was written, not against the idea (such as it could be determined from the proposal). I was one of the downvoters, and that was my reason. I could support a well defined law community propo... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
30 suggested edits on other people's posts is <b>a lot</b>. I usually don't do suggested edits because of all the hassle and long lead times to get approved.
And yes, general activity and reputation <i>should</i> matter. What you want is someone familiar with the site and a proven record of post... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287834 |
<i>*"Why remove the ability to see them?"</i> Because if I can't do anything about the edit, I don't care. As others have pointed out, if I really want to watch such edits, there are already ways to seek them out. However, the vast majority of the time, the reason for looking over pending edits is ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #276749 |
A single value will never work because there are two orthogonal metrics people want to know about a post: 1 - What the consensus is on how good/bad the post is. 2 - How much the post has been rated at all. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
Sorry, I meant deletion of an answer to an existing question. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
It would be better to indicate last activity was a question deletion. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287671 |
I'd rather get the complete list of pending edits right away. It will be a long time before this site has so much activity that anyone will want to partition the pending edits list, and even then most people will probably want to look at all pending edits on a site. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287671 |
I assume you're talking about a dot by the Edit button. That's good, but without also a dot by the category you may never enter the site from the dashboard to find there is a pending edit on that site. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287474 |
When I first saw the +, I thought clicking it would bring up more information, like a submenu. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287396 |
This should define *user script*, explaining roughly what they can do, how you run one, point do documentation about writing them, etc. Most people aren't going to know what a user script is in this context. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286795 |
I've wished I could center-align images before, but don't see a legitimate reason for center or right aligned text. At first glance it sounds like more ways an author can make a post annoying to read. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286545 |
The one with the white lines on blue background looks like a tent, something that might mean "camping spot". I'm not sure what the other icon is supposed to be (a medieval sword shield?), but it certainly doesn't say "moderator" either. A 5-pointed star sheriff badge would be more of a clue, althou... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286443 |
@sam: That gets back to the problem of us being unable to vote to close. That's really the root of this. The correct response to a vague question is to ask for clarification, then vote to close immediately. That way the proper thing is done (assuming enough others vote to close too) automatically ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |