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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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| Comment | Post #279394 |
How did the auto-save not work for you? At least with the browser I use (Edge on Win10), it seems to save within a second or two of making a change. That means I can't lose more than a couple seconds of work if I suddenly closed the window by mistake. What happened in your case to defeat this mech... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279371 |
We don't need more nannyware. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279093 |
I'm sure this is a duplicate, but that was a while ago and the page popping up and down still hasn't been fixed. This issue needs to be heard again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
@Moshi: Right, but this isn't in the Site Proposals category. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
@Moshi: Ah, so the permalink for an answer gets you to that specific answer, as apposed to the page containing that answer. That makes sense. If Permalink doesn't do anything for a question, then it should probably be removed to avoid this confusion. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
I just tried it, and clicking on Permalink resulted in exactly the same URL I was already at. So why do we need a Permalink button at all? What am I missing? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279086 |
Whoever downvoted, it would be interesting to hear exactly what you disagree with. This is a good debate to have. However, it's not clear what to make of something as broad as an unexplained downvote on the aggregate of 5 paragraphs. Do you disagree with all of it? Just one point? If so, which? ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
When I clicked CLOSE, I was expecting to add one vote to closing, not have my action unilaterally close the post. Oh well. It really should be in the other category. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
This should be in the Site Proposals category, or possibly in the Languages site meta. This isn't a main-site meta issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
Why is there a different permalink URL in the first place? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279076 |
This is a very nannyish attitude, and just not how most people's thought process works when writing a post. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278956 |
People will do what people will do. All you can do is not attach much meaning to the result. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278929 |
You keep saying "rep will go away", but I haven't seen anyone describe a good system to replace it. You still need some kind of publicly visible "awesomeness score" you get by creating great content within the domain of the site. It taps into gamification, gives something for new users to aspire to,... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278928 |
I agree. This has bugged me too. Rep is supposed to be a single public number that gives a quick idea of how much someone has contributed appreciated content *in the domain of the site*. Agreeing or disagreeing with some policy discussions shouldn't enter into that. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278894 |
It shouldn't be allowed because it's obnoxious to the rest of the users. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278857 |
@Mith: To get Electrical Engineering going, I grabbed a few of my own popular answers from SE, but they weren't just imported. I edited and cleaned up each one individually. I also only grabbed a small number, under a dozen. That seems to have worked. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278857 |
@Mith: Yes, of the sites I regularly check, it seems like Photography and Scientific Speculation are dead, and Outdoors is nearly dead. Of those, Outdoors and Speculation did lots of importing, and Photography was abandoned by the original proponents. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277100 |
Yup, this sounds good. The current situation isn't working well where we see all the deleted comments in a dark color. That is seriously distracting from seeing and understanding the comment flow as viewed by ordinary users. We don't need anything fancy. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278722 |
Adding more formatting features to comments will only invite more abuse of comments. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
*"Our top fifty contributors will receive Codidact stickers!"* Do we even have 50 posts per week across all sites? It seems like much less to me. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278542 |
@Moshi: Sorry about getting attribution to you wrong. When you're editing a question, you can't see the comments anymore. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
Would you still care about auto-save being disabled if there were a "Cancel Changes" button? It seems to me that is the real issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278493 |
The last-seen time is for everyone else. It's something that users shouldn't be able to hide. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278487 |
You can just delete everything. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
This is usually built-into browsers. Alt left-arrow is pretty universal, there is often a left arrow near the top left corner, and also a menu entry somewhere. Do these not work for you somehow, or are you expecting every web page to have a go-back button? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Moshi: Then they could just ask if I'm over 18, or whatever the relevant age threshold is. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
I couldn't get to the linked post on Discord. I thought I had an account there, but *after* making me go thru captchas, it would then tell me it didn't like my email address. When I tried to create a new account, it wouldn't proceed until I gave it my birth date. What the …!? I don't see a legiti... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
@Moshi Right. I'm suggesting a squishy metric trading off the two. For example, you can get the ability with high accepted flag count and low contribution score, low accepted flag count and high contribution score, and combinations in between. The four limits should be settable by site. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278266 |
@Logician: You are apparently sorting by activity, not score. This question is at the top because it had the most recent activity. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
For example, someone that has read and answered a lot of questions should know how to tell good from bad questions. In fact, they are probably better at it than someone that had a few close/reopen/delete flags accepted. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
Much of this sounds reasonable, but it seems like the metric of generally writing well-received answers is getting lost except for the first ability you mention. Someone with lots of good answers is going to be familiar with the site and its norms. The should lower other thresholds to get specific ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278206 |
You might decouple rep from privileges to some extent, but there still needs to be a single easy-to-see score for every user that indicates how much that user's contributions are valued by the community. The gamification of such a "awesomeness score" is important and must not be overlooked. Trust s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278199 |
The real question is why some sites artificially cap rep at 1 or 0. Some people can make a net negative contribution. Rep should reflect that. If it were clipped at 0, then doing bad things don't count anymore after a while. That makes no sense. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278181 |
-1, this is exactly the rules-lawyering we are trying to prevent. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278162 |
Even now, comments have an order, since some are in reply to others. Comments should definitely not be reordered. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277974 |
This should have been two questions since you made two separate proposals. I don't know how to vote on the question now since I agree with the first proposal, but not the second. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277949 |
Votes here on meta mean agreement/disagreement. The obvious interpretation of the downvotes is therefore "*I don't think this is a worthwhile feature*". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277958 |
@Monica: I'd be fine with that too. I was just thinking this might be an easy mechanism to add signed votes to, implementation-wise. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277959 |
The proposed additional voting options are optional. If you don't want to be identified, nobody is forcing you. You only list problems with signed votes, but there are problems with unsigned votes too. Vandalism was certainly a problem on SE. It also sucks when your post is downvoted, but without... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277958 |
I generally agree, +1. Emojis are way overused today, and have gotten annoying as a result. I would like to see "signed" up and down votes added as a special mechanism. Instead of just saying *"I like this"*, it says *"I agree, this is correct, (or disagree, this is wrong) and am putting my reputa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277957 |
@luap42: The point about the signed up and down votes is that they do more than just leave a comment. They should additionally effect the score of the post and the rep of the author more strongly than unsigned votes. That means some special handling needs to be implemented. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277957 |
This would also be a good place to add the signed up and down votes. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277954 |
@Moshi: Because there is not need since it's already solved, and the developers have better things to do. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277943 |
Trying to communicate this level of detail with tags is pointless. Its would mostly be busy-work for the developers, and provide very little useful actionable information to the users. Let's not make things difficult for the volunteers that are developing this software. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
*are you fine with "a little delay" of a couple days?* Certainly. Even longer is fine usually, once we know the feature has been added or bug fixed, and it's just a matter of getting thru the pipeline. This is especially true for trivial features like the one you linked to in your question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
I can live with a little delay in the interest of making things easier for the developers, -1. While not perfect, Status-Completed when the code has been changed is good enough for me. Otherwise, the developers have to remember to come back to find outstanding "Code-updated" (or whatever) and chang... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277887 |
Thanks for posting this. I saw the activity too, then went looking for what change, but couldn't find it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277868 |
Ah, so you mean like those crossing light buttons that do nothing. Eventually the lights change so that you can cross anyway. But really, the auto-save is pretty quick. I think you'd have a hard time making a change, then scrolling down to a SAVE button and clicking it before the system did it for... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277875 |
I like your out of the box thinking, but I wouldn't want commenters to essentially litter my perfect post with little icons all over the place. I agree comments should be short and not too visually cluttering. How about the *quote* feature would only write the text in italics or different font, may... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277858 |
@pnuts: That would be favoring newer answers. The system should strive to not add bias to the voting. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |