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Activity for Olin Lathrop
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #283801 |
Yes, to put it bluntly (since you asked), I downvoted your suggestion because you are asking for an unnecessary feature from the system because you got caught being sloppy. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
Yes, you have a history of posts that are annoying to read because of the bad English. Again, I realize this may not be your fault. However, that doesn't change the end result, which is ultimately all that matters.
This isn't the place for a detailed critique. If you want one, ask about it in t... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
I was one of the downvoters. Yes, the blatantly broken title made me immediately dislike the post. It would have needed to be a stellar post to recover. It wasn't. It seemed to be largely a bunch of disorganized thoughts with it not obvious what the question actually was. This was not helped by ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279062 |
Your basic premise is flawed. Just because most of us have to deal a particular thing in our lives, doesn't mean we *need* a Codidact community for it. We all drink water and walk far more often than do accounting. By this logic, we "need" communities about water and walking. Clearly this is absu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283013 |
What is SVG? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282502 |
It doesn't matter much what others are doing, and we don't want to chase around to 5 different web sites to get the spec of what you are proposing *here*. Describe your proposed site **here** in full. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
Since your one-line description of this proposed site is outward-facing, you should use the terms the general public will understand. It seems you intend this site to be for games you play on a computer, so "Computer Games" or some such makes more sense than "Video Games". To me, the latter is some... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
I'm not plugged into the computer gaming world, and I don't care what you ultimately do. However, as an outsider, saying the site is about "video" games is confusing. I could understand "computer games". At first I thought you meant only games that run on dedicated boxes that drive an existing TV,... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282106 |
The place the avatar will be displayed must always be finite. Instead of making the system deal with arbitrary shapes, specify the aspect ratio the avatar will be displayed in. That way anyone can make any avatar they wish within that region, by using transparency. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282026 |
*If I'm looking to answer some questions why do I have to hunt them down?* Because it's not implemented. That really should have been obvious. Probably nobody thought of it, or it hasn't bubbled to the top of priority list yet. This is a reasonable feature request, but asking "why", especially wh... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281717 |
I can see these new communities when clicking on the links above, but otherwise they seem impossible to find. Clicking on "Codidact Network" at right only shows the previously existing communities. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281661 |
For a time, old posts were being bumped with no-change edits on our Outdoors site. That was bad. Even worse, it was being done by a mod. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281661 |
Abilities should and do take rep as part of their input. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278908 |
I agree with most of what you said, except that web applications are off topic. For many users, there is little distinction between a web application and a local one. Lots of stuff (like Codidact) run some parts locally, others on the server. From the user's point of view, none of that is relevant... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281636 |
I didn't downvote, but your post is hard to read in places, to the point where it's confusing what you are trying to say. Perhaps the -1 was for the bad English. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
What I meant is how do you get around the case where someone makes a major or malicious edit, then tries to hide that by claiming it was minor? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
How do you avoid abuse by people being dishonest about an edit being minor? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281602 |
It's a bit unclear what you are asking or stating. Note that both paragraphs are single run-on sentences. A few sentence breaks to distinguish thoughts would help clarity, and make your post less annoying to read. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281592 |
I agree. As a moderator one one of our sites, I know who has participated and can be trusted with Curate and other privileges. I'd be happy to give them out when deemed appropriate if there was a mechanism to do that. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
Another reason for all feedback to be public is that it helps all see what the norms are. As someone giving feedback, I want to write once *"show a diagram"* and have that cause others to include a diagram in the first place. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
When someone posts a bad question, getting piled upon is well deserved, and is likely to achieve the desired result (shape up or ship out). (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
When I comment on a post I want everyone to see it. Also as a post author, I don't want a bunch of duplicate comments just because each commenter couldn't see what others have already written. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281449 |
@Monica: I looked around on the EE site (where I'm a moderator) but couldn't find any of these settings. I looked in "moderator tools", and also on the page of individual abilities, like "curate". I agree with Lundin that 196 flags is excessive. I'd also be willing to explicitly grant certain abil... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281435 |
Um, OK, so what's your question? I don't even see a particular point, other than "Hi, I'm here". What is the purpose of this question? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
@Monica: If you screw up on a question somewhat outside your domain, others will downvote it fast enough. You can also start with "This isn't my area of expertise, but ...". People seem to be more forgiving of errors that way too. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281298 |
These questions seem borderline at best in their current form. This is because they are more about credit card or money user issues than chemistry. It would be better if you asked about the materials the money and credit cards are made of, how inert that material is to isopropyl alcohol, and perhap... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281275 |
Comments are not for content. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281227 |
One unfortunate side effect is that imported content won't be as obvious, and therefore less likely to get fixed. This stuff is damaging all sites, and particularly the ones with the imported content. There seems to be too much inertia to do something about it already. Defaulting the icons to off ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281080 |
I often use two browser tabs for this reason. I agree it would be nice to not have to do that. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281013 |
Too many links, too little content *here*, -1. The description of what you are proposing should be self-contained in the question here. Nobody should have to follow links to get pertinent information to the proposal. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280709 |
The OP asked about transferring his "questions and answers". It's not clear to me that he didn't implicitly include all answers to a question with "question", or that he wasn't considering dragging someone else's question along when copying his answer. There are some serious drawbacks to copying co... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280711 |
@10Rep *"Would it be fine if I copied the question as well?"* No, not if you mean simply copying and pasting it. There is more to it than that. If you did that on EE, for example, I'd delete the whole thing as soon as I saw it. Other sites may have different policies. Overall it's not quite as s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280709 |
This answer gives too much of the impression that it is OK to import anything you want. That is definitely NOT true. There are tradeoffs, downsides, and other considerations that anyone thinking of importing content must be aware of. The answer is NOT and unqualified "absolutely". Please don't gi... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280632 |
*"If you're quoting a long text that already uses bolds and italics, then all formatting tools have been exhausted"*. You are forgetting about *blockquote*. That sets quoted text apart visually regardless of font, size, boldness, or color. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280517 |
@Monica: I didn't notice until now that the question is 3 months old. When you folks fix something, it would be worth adding and answer, even if all it says it "Fixed". Tags are easy to not notice. I guess it was the addition of the tag that got this post bumped so that I noticed it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280517 |
The above looks as expected. The example above therefore does not reproduce the bug. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278500 |
If it's a single list, then how did the unordered list get in there without additional indentation? Something isn't adding up. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278500 |
You should explain whether this is one list or multiple lists. It seems to me that each list should start at 1 separately. In other words, the right side looks correct, not the left side. I base this on an unordered list apparently inserted between two ordered lists. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280399 |
@user: The point is to not provide content elsewhere so that askers have to come here to get it. Also continuing to provide content elsewhere only helps those other places get high search results. We need good content here to attract more good content here. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280482 |
@10 Rep: You may dislike reputation, but it has its uses. I don't think it needs to be bigger, but I certainly wouldn't want it smaller either. I think the stuff below the rep line is mostly clutter, though. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280472 |
These might be interesting statistics to track per site, but I don't think they would have much bearing on whether people ask questions here. The barrier is in people finding out about the site in the first place. If they can see the statistics, they are already here and know about the site. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280465 |
Just like on SE, the sites are what users proposed and gave some indication they will support. Nobody sat down and decided to have a particular set of sites. If you want something that's not here, propose it. Be prepared to do the work to define the site, get others on board, eventually write the ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280464 |
What Zerotime said. These need to be separate so we can vote on and discuss them separately. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280419 |
Of course the whole concept of rep on a meta site doesn't make much sense in the first place. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280407 |
It sounds like you want indexed documentation, not a FAQ. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Monica: See addition to the question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280379 |
Please take some measurements before and after so that we can all learn from Writing's experiment. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Judaism seems to have gotten started well. Are you getting new people from elsewhere regularly, or is it that there is enough interest already among the Codidact folks? It helps that it's more of a community discussion among peers (at least that's my impression) than strict Q&A. It's not a bunch o... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Despite all the above, the EE site is growing more slowly than I had hoped. Achieving critical mass is *hard*. This is why there should be a plan for it before a site is launched. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
I did some deliberate outreach. I personally contacted a number of people I knew, told them about the new site, and asked them to spread the word. I put a prominent link to the new site on my SE profile. (I'm a bit dismayed that some of the other founders didn't do the same, and kept answering qu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |