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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description. User names have a purpose, which is to be a short handle to identify you across Codidact. They are not th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Users should be able to say what they want in their profile. I think of that as personal space. About the only thing that should not be allowed is a direct insult to another member. As with anything else you write publicly, you are still on the hook for libel if you misstate facts in a way to be... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header? Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header? Eh, maybe, but it also doesn't seem like a problem to solve. One advantage of showing the selected category on the bottom line is that it can be bigger and bolder. It's easier to see at a quick glance what category yo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How many automatically created users that were never active are there still and what to do about them? Importing content was a mistake It may have sounded good at the time, but hindsight has now clearly shown that importing content from Elsewhere was a mistake. These dummy users are part of that. We should delete all imported content, which includes users that never showed up here in person. That... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What information should be displayed on a network profile? I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Activity numbers don't add up I was just looking at Reports > Posts in the moderator tools of the Electrical Engineering site: The total numbers of questions, answers, and comments is believable. However, these don't agree with other places, nor with the numbers under "Categories". In the categories directly, it shows ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we remove closed questions from the question list? Closed questions should remain visible to the general users (unregistered and first-time users is a different issue). Reasons: It avoids site policy being enacted "behind closed doors". It illustrates what the norms are. Seeing what questions got closed can be useful, especially for new users... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? I suggest we show questions in the list differently depending on their rating. Good questions are show as they are now. Poorly received questions are shown visually de-emphasized, like smaller text, less detail, and partially grayed out. Since it takes some time for questions to be rated by vote... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Tag edit major weirdness I just ran into something similar. I expect it's the same bug. That's why I'm adding it to this existing question instead of posting a new one. I'm a mod on the EE site. A user had created the superfluous tags "208VAC" and "230VAC", so I edited the post to delete them. I'm quite sure both tags... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to grow all of our communities? In addition to what Lundin said, we should do something Monica alluded to in her posts to each community. Some communities, particularly the less-active ones, have a high drivel ratio. This makes the place look like an unkempt trash heap to casual visitors. I suggest that unregistered users only... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Reacting without signing in error Even better, don't show the vote triangles or the "react" link if you're not logged in. Then there is no issue of an error message. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Require title for comment thread The title of a comment thread currently defaults to the start of the comment text. That has lead to a lot of partial-sentence comments visible below a post without comments expanded. Those look messy and are annoying, since you often can't tell at a glance what the comment is about. These titles ca... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker Some questions are closely related, and therefore are better combined in a single question post. Answering such individual questions separately would be more trouble, would likely require duplicate work, and possibly cross-references to the other related questions or their answers. It is the ques... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others. Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make suggestions to authors about improving posts, but the authors ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names? I agree. This is a great example of over-reaching with trying to be "helpful" automatically. Only links explicitly declared so by the author should be shown as links. The site otherwise has no business guessing author intent. If a post author forgets or otherwise doesn't properly declare a link... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Show more threaded comments after clicking the title of a threaded discussion I agree. Once I've said I want to see the thread, show me the thread. Systems that try to automatically do something clever inevitably end up being more trouble than they are worth. Showing me some of the comments, especially other than the first N, is going to be confusing. Just show them all.... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: I suggest to better format the title ("summarize your post with a title") area There is nothing broken here, and nothing to fix or change. Anyone can make a typo, forget to finish the title, or delete a piece of it by accident. That wasn't the problem. The real problem was that you obviously didn't look over the post after submitting it. Even the most minimal proofreadi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Can't edit comment title. I wrote a comment and forgot to give it a title (It doesn't help that the title is entered below the comment, but that's another issue). The title shown is then just the start of the comment, which looks ugly. When I went to fix that, I couldn't find a way to edit the title, only the body of the co... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Electronic Gadgets: Revival as "Mobile Devices" What you describe is already on topic at Power Users. Since that site is not overwhelmed with questions about smart phones and tablets (what you actually appear to mean by "mobile devices"), there is no point at this time to create a separate site for this more narrow topic. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How important reference is? References give credibility to facts you present in a post. It is up to you as the post author how credible you want to make your facts, versus how much trouble you want to go thru for that credibility. There are various factors that effect the credibility of a statement in the minds of your read... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact? I'm not familiar with Reddit, and don't know what you mean by "submit links". However, it seems this other site has certain rules, and your question here is about how to circumvent them. You have no right to do that. Whether you think the rules are silly or not, it's their call to make. Think a... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy? Response to homework dumps should be site-specific. On Electrical Engineering, we addressed this up front by explicitly mentioning homework in the Allowed Topics help file (See the very last bullet at the bottom of that page). So far we haven't had enough of a problem so that an official policy t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What does the logo of each Codidact site represent? Seriously!? Unlike Elsewhere, site logos on Codidact were chosen to be widely recognizable as belonging to the particular subject, even by people that aren't familiar with the subject. The logo, like the site name, is outward-facing. As such, it makes sense to choose them for good recognition by o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Battery Science & Engineering Much of what you describe is already on topic on Electrical Engineering. That certainly includes any use of batteries and battery management systems. Some of the inner workings are on topic too, since you can't use batteries effectively without at least some understanding of how they work. The d... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? While it would be nice for minor edits to not bump posts, the problem is defining what "minor" is, and leaving it for the person who did the edit to judge. Hopefully, most people won't be subjected to the edit queue eventually, so that's not the answer. I certainly want to know about all edit any... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Let's revamp our status tags The "status-" part provides context that can be useful for people not intimately familiar with the site. The upside of getting rid of "status-" is very minimal. Extra clarity is usually a good thing, and worth keeping in this case. For example, suppose someone asked about why a tag was declined ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Currently, where should we ask any OS related question? Codidact currently has no place to ask OS-related questions, unless they are niches that happen to fit into one of the existing sites. Yes! I know that, that's why I am asking the question. Then I fail to see the point of asking for suggestions where to ask such questions ("suggest to ask quest... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only Bad idea. Quoting parts of a question in an answer is useful because: It makes it clear what exactly is being replied to. It protects the answerer from changes to the question. The quotes can act somewhat as headings in the answer. It is easier to find a particular part of an answer that... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why is there a rep system in Codidact? Actually Codidact should support rep better than it does now. Most of the dislike of rep seems to come from a misunderstanding of its purpose. It's not to show who is "better" somehow, but a measure of how much someone has contributed useful content to the site as judged by all the other users. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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Inconsistant picture sizes in users list I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I think the large ones being at right was just a coincidence. In any case, there seems to be a bug som... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why not broaden Electrical Engineering to Engineering? You have touched on two different topics, neither of which belong here. Scope of the Electrical Engineering site As Monica has already explained, this is up to the users of the site. The right place to discuss that is in the Meta category of the EE site. Having a general Engineering site ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add 'close this help' to Codidact keyboard shortcuts list Esc is the usual and obvious way to dismiss a popup like this. Esc for this function is so common and nearly universal that listing it would only add clutter, and not provide any useful information to the vast majority of users. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Transferring my questions and answers from StackOverflow and other SE sites It is always fine to bring over your own content. After all, it's yours. However, some sites here will not appreciate you bringing over anyone else's content. That would require us to show attribution, which results in links to elsewhere that we don't want. For example, on the EE site, we don't... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Where can I ask about fixing a Fairphone 3? There is currently no Codidact site where that question would be on topic. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Numbering Display Bug This is a test with known input. First entry in ordered list. Second ordered list entry. First entry in subordinate list under point 2. Second unordered list entry. Third entry in outer ordered list. Outer list entry 4. First entry in second ordered li... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? That's the wrong question. We aren't unfriendly to askers. The real question is: What can we do to encourage people to ask questions here? There are two necessary conditions to have a site that gets a good volume of questions: Good answ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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We should delete all old imported content. Early for the Codidact sites, it seemed like importing content from SE might be a good way to get a new site going quickly. Now with the clarity of hindsight, we can see that this didn't work. The few sites that did mass-import content are doing very poorly. As far as I can tell, these are Writing... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can't edit my own post. I just tried to edit my question on Outdoors (https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/279707), but the "Edit" button at the bottom of the post is missing. Here is a screen shot: Microsoft Edge Windows 10 I just noticed that "Suggest Edit" is missing for me on all questions in all site... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where’s my suggested edit? There is apparently a bug relating to suggested edits. I've had a pending suggested edit to https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280084 for two weeks now. See the comment from Monica to that question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What will become of reputation? Whatever it is called, we still need a nice simple single number that is a rough measure of how much good content someone has contributed, as judged by all others on that site. "Reputation" is a reasonable name that captures this concept well enough, but there are probably others out there that woul... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Incorrect activity shown in question list I've noticed this in several cases in the last day or so. The activity shown in the question list does not match the actual activity. Here is one example activity list entry: Image The actual question is at https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279978. Inside that question it shows the quest... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? I agree that the site proposal and validation process needs a re-do. One of the biggest problems I see right now is that everything about a new site is limited to a single "question" in the Site Proposals category. That makes sense in trying to keep the chatter about individual sites from drownin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Change not listed in question The question list for Q&A on the Electrical Engineering site shows this entry: Image However, in the question (https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/279739), there is nothing indicating the question was changed: Image Clicking on "History" does reveal the change. I was expecting the ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? Title before body in post editor There has been much discussion about the fact that the title is put after the body of the post when writing a question. I, and a number of others, find this unintuitive and annoying. At least give us a way to shut this off when we take the trouble to do so. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Mismatch between number of answers listed and actual number I just noticed something strange. In the Q&A category of Scientific Speculation, I see this list entry: Image However, the question actually does have an answer. See https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/questions/279501 Windows 10 Microsoft Edge (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Insert Image button now totally broken For a while, there had been problems inserting images into posts on particular sites. https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277052. Now it seems this has spread to all sites. When I hover over the image button in the post editor, I see "Insert image". However, when clicking on it, the hover text ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Need wording fix in dup close banner The banner at the top of a question when the question is closed as a duplicate says in part "This question has been answered before" (example). That really should say "This question has been asked before". Note that in the example linked to above, neither question has any answers (currently). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack? why don't the admin[s] just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for? Because content doesn't create a community. Engaged users do. If sites here are just clones of elsewhere, then there is no point for a core group of users to be here. In fact, having content here b... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we get a link back to the moderator dashboard from the individual mod pages? There is no need since there already is such a link. That link is always available no matter which moderator tool you are in: Image Maybe this is browser-specific. This screen shot was with Edge on Win10. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts The name "privacy" is too broad. My first mental images have nothing to do with what your proposed site is about. I think of how much the public can see me when I'm out and about doing things, how anonymous I am at the grocery store, stalking, what others know about how I vote, what I read, etc. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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