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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #276574 |
Huh? What reveiews? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276539 |
A downvote on a bug report can mean various things, like *"RTFM, moron"*, *"it shouldn't be bothering you, get over it"*, or *"maybe it's technically broken, but this is such a silly nit-pick that I wouldn't want to see the developers waste their time even reading this request"*. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276542 |
Note that the suggestors are usually the experts, and are the ones that answer questions, not ask them. They need to draw in the askers. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276413 |
Yeah, I just wasted some time reading a lengthy new question on Scientific Speculation, only to find it was 4 years old with lots of answers. Argh! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276337 |
That brings up another point, which is why is there a new edit box in the first place after having just posted a comment. That's just inviting people to abuse comments, like what I'm doing here to make a point. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276337 |
Ah, I see you're talking about a *second* comment. I see it resets immediately when I start typing. Maybe it shouldn't for consecutive comments, since now people can get around the length limitation by posting multiply comments. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276337 |
I'm not following. To me, the character count goes away after posting a comment. Since it's gone, there is nothing to reset. OK, testing here, am now at 164/500. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276334 |
@aCVn: OK, but whatever you call it, it is still valuable feedback to see how things you wrote were received. That's what I'm asking for. On SE this was called "rep". (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276334 |
Codidact needs to get over its disdain of rep. It's useful, even important, on certain types of sites. Unfortunately, there are some that see rep as evil, and don't want others to have it. While seeing votes scaled by age of post could be useful, just having a recent history of voting activity on ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276280 |
Please make the name something most people (not just jews) can recognize. "MiYodeya" is rather annoying in that regard. Imagine if the subject of every site could only be recognized by those familiar with the subject. There would be a lot of people wasting time ultimately figuring out sites are no... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276272 |
I can see "Test Image" for all 4 image types. Using Edge on Win10. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276264 |
@Art: See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275962 |
Non-judgmental is a delusional phantasy. *Of course* people will judge you by what you write, and then will naturally react to you accordingly. When someone naively says they want "non-judgmental", they are really saying they don't want to hear about the judgements, usually because they fear lookin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276237 |
OK, thanks for the explanation. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276227 |
@Dave: Or eliminated altogether. I'm not sure what it's telling me that I really need to be so urgently aware of. OK, so save a draft, but stop bothering me about it every time you do. I'm unlikely to rely on the system saving drafts anyway. If the message has to be there, then permanent with perh... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276214 |
@Art: One issue is that I might not want my name associated with a particular site. It also pollutes the site statistics. As someone managing a site, I can't tell how many "real" users we have. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276220 |
@Art: Maybe the image button should produce HTML instead of markdown? Unfortunately, the image button seems to be the only way to get an image stored on the server, and then for me to get the URL. Is there some other way I'm missing? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276214 |
Seems like we're conflating validation with signing up to a particular site. Validating the user (getting and checking user ID and password) should only be required once across all sites. However, getting on the list of "users" of a site should be a deliberate action, if only once. No need to veri... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276168 |
Closing and making the OP repost is a little tedius. That's good. There needs to be some cost to posting in the wrong place. And, the question shouldn't just be copied exactly to the new site. It should be looked over and edited for the different target audience. Most likely, something should be... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Even embedded programming is split into two broad categories. 1 - You're on a general purpose computer with a mainstream operating system. It's only embedded because the end user can't run their own programs on it. 2 - You're on a microcontroller, maybe with a real-time kernel but no real OS. Iss... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275969 |
@King: It's a minor "nice to have". I wouldn't want to see it compete with the many more important things the devs have to do. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276111 |
@Art: Did you get pinged by this? You would have on SE. The first three letters was enough there, and I almost always follow with a colon to delineate the name from the text. With some names, it can appear they are part of the text unless you see the @ sign and mentally parse what is really going ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275972 |
@Peter: I already did it using HTML. It worked fine. As far as I can tell, there is nothing markdown can do that the HTML support in posts can't. The only issue is grabbing an image file and putting it in the appropriate place on this server. As far as I can tell, that can only be done by clickin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275972 |
I guess that's what I'll have to do. Good thing we have HTML formatting to allow previewing post off-line in a browser. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275943 |
Ah, OK. No problem. I notice that "Site Information" is already gone. I'll wait for the other changes to be rolled out, and then see what I can do to make the site help easy, intuitive, and uncluttered. By the way, you're welcome to copy anything we have. Some of it is not EE specific, but appli... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275916 |
OK, I have no idea about the implementation side of things. The reason for not linking everything is that when documents are in a tree structure, some may be so far down as to be too much detail at the lop level. They would of course be linked from other help pages, just not at the top. Not a huge... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275881 |
@Art: OK, thanks. I'll use the numbering approach for now. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275863 |
Thanks for this, and for adding support for sup, sub, ol, ul, and the like. It looks like there is little need for markdown now, and we can write more portable and interchangeable documents. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275864 |
OK, thanks. --- (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275857 |
Apparently I said this in the wrong place before. Please make me, Dave Tweed, and Nick Alexeev moderators on the new site. Then we'll see what we can do and try to take it from there. Nick hasn't signed in yet, but I just sent him a message. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275857 |
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I probably will put some effort into a few canonical questions, but I'm not sure how much *other* questions really matter to someone that has *their* problem. I've also never liked artificially seeded questions on SE. Traffic will largely come when the masses figure... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275857 |
Thanks for the explanation. I disagree with your last paragraph a little. You only get one chance to make a first impression. I'd like to set up the obvious basics before inviting the inquisitive hordes. A site introduction is essential. You can't expect people to follow the rules if you haven't... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275856 |
Thanks for your thorough answer. It sounds like most of what I want to do can be done with moderator privileges. So please make me a mod. I see that of the core group of 5, so far only Dave Tweed and myself have signed in to the new site. Dave should also be a mod, and so should Nick Alexeev when... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275776 |
@Monica: See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275776 |
@King: See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275776 |
@Monica: See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275779 |
As far as I can tell, I've had one downvote on one answer, and one upvote on one question. I think I saw the 12 rep before the upvote. In any case, I had 7 rep when the only vote I received was a downvote on one answer. Then this was all on meta, where rep makes no sense in the first place. The po... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |