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| Comment | Post #292992 |
Questions about the software itself, how to use it, how to set up and instance and the like go on the Collab forum, https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56. (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292886 |
So it does a page reload. You haven't explained why that's supposed to be bad. (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I was notified of the new post by the gray dot in the sites overview page. There is no need to be part of chat to see new posts. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292847 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Poll for chat users and non-chat users I don't use the chat associated with Codidact for three reasons: It's a waste of time. If there is something to talk about that would be content in one of the Q&A sites, then that's where it should be. If it's related but not thought out well enough to be a proper Q&A question, then it's not rea... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
You need to think thru what happens as the actions that granted an ability decay over time. Old actions decaying by becoming less relevant to current calculations makes sense, but what should happen when a user becomes less active? At the least, enabling abilities needs to have some hysteresis. An... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
Another possibility is instead of forcing all the experimental sites into one site so that the whole thing is easier to monitor, create a mechanism to easily monitor multiple sites.
This would be useful for ordinary users too. I'd like to be able to create a list of sites to "monitor", then have ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
It seems you are jumping thru hoops to make the single incubator site look and feel like separate sites. I'm assuming the software is there to create the separate sites rather easily. The only difference is that these sites would be down one level.
I see your point about the admin burden, but yo... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292601 |
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| Edit | Post #292601 |
Post edited: Fixed name of proposed sites to "experimental". |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292599 |
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| Edit | Post #292601 |
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| Edit | Post #292601 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Our site incubator concept needs a re-think Here is a mechanism that addresses some of the problems: Each proposed new site is a full site in the structural sense. It has all the proposed categories, including meta. These sites would be in a single container that is at the same level as the full sites. This container would be called Ex... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292599 |
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| Edit | Post #292599 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Our site incubator concept needs a re-think Background Starting new sites here at Codidact has evolved over time, mostly as we got experience and realized we needed to do something different. Originally, new sites would be proposed here on meta, kicked around, then fully created if it felt right. That sortof worked when Codidact was n... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292521 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Voting on a closed question Yes, these options should continue to be active. A bad question is a bad question, and it is legitimate to downvote it because of that. The fact that it might be fixed later has no bearing on it being bad now. Perhaps there should be a way to notify downvoters when a question is re-opened so tha... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
*"posts in the Incubator Q&A (questions as well as answers). Not the proposals."*
In that case, people are voting on the specific posts, not passing judgement on the overall site proposal. Questions in the Q&A category of the proposals site are intended to be examples showing both desirable and u... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
I just went to check the latest site proposals and was reminded that there is no voting on proposals. Users can endorse them at different levels, but can't up or down vote proposals. I had forgotten about that and took it at face value that your proposals were getting downvoted when I wrote my prev... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
I take the negative votes to mean those users think the proposal is flawed. They believe (I presume) that the proposal in its current form would not be a benefit to Codidact, or that it would be a significantly higher benefit if fixed.
Unfortunately, the site proposal mechanism doesn't allow for ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
*"everybody who should upvote to embrace a new idea, is just not voting at all."*
So you are the official judge of what should be voted on and how!!? You might stop and consider that maybe, just maybe, the non-voters don't think much of the proposal. I know, what a shocker! Some people have the... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292455 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
If you have such a large image, it is very likely that it contains way more detail than necessary. If you let the system compress it, then you have no control over what detail exactly gets removed. There are many image editing tools out there. Cropping the image to strip off the irrelevant areas, ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292455 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Allow including larger images The maximum size limit should not get in the way of legitimate and properly edited images. A 1920 x 1080 screen has 2.1 MPixels. Just about any compression algorithm should be able to get that down to 2 MB without losing any real information, especially considering that large areas of most screens ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292337 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Should multiple whitespace characters in a row be permitted in usernames? In general we shouldn't allow user names that game the system or exploit loopholes with no real advantage to the user, and at the expense and annoyance of all the other users. The two dots with a long string of spaces between is just one example. It's hard to know what next "clever" hack someone ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292209 |
@#64277 Shadows would probably not confuse a diagram, but tend to be larger than borders and can still add visual clutter. Again, shadows and/or a border are OK as long as they are optional. Much of the time there is no confusion, and a clean look is desirable. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292209 |
My main use of images is for posting schematics on the EE site. Those are black on white line drawings, where the black lines have specific meanings. Enclosing something like that with a black border if there are already lines going off the edge would cause confusion. Are those lines part of the s... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292214 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Optional frames, borders or shadow around images Images should not be forced to have borders. If you are posting a diagram, for example, then it is already visually different from the rest of the post and the border may be confused as part of the diagram or add visual clutter. A border is usually unnecessary and would detract from photographs. ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291476 |
@#8046 *isn't that better than doing nothing?* That's the question. I'm not sure this issue is worth doing anything about. First, everybody just takes it as a given that bots crawling the site is harmful, but haven't really made arguments to that affect. Second, stopping a few bots that play by t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291476 |
What you are saying is that since we can't actually block or even detect AI bots, all we can do is ask them not to scrape the site. That means only the responsible bots will stop, leaving the irresponsible bots. Doesn't sound any better. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291902 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Clicking on an avatar to see a user's profile preference between these two approaches? There are actually three approaches to consider, your two alternative proposals and leaving it alone. I don't have any preference between leaving it alone and making the avatar clickable. Having the avatar clickable is probably slightly more intuitive, ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291868 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291868 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: There should be a full moderation log visible to everyone First, I'm a moderator on EE. I agree that moderator actions should be publicly visible to "real" users. I wouldn't want any search bot out there being able to access the data. You'd have to be a real user that's been around a while and has shown enough activity to have some track record of not ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291862 |
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| Edit | Post #291862 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: What recourse is there for incorrect close/delete? Sometimes a moderator closes or deletes a question, but non-moderating users may see this as incorrect. Then discuss the particular case in meta for that site. Occasionally I see closures where the questions is valid, valuable ... can be answered in a useful way That's your opinion. There i... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291770 |
A discussion about which log files shouldn't include the log files themselves, at least not in any comments. A puzzle solution would be an answer. Answers don't belong in comments. I can't think of a legitimate reason why spoilers would be in comments. That again sounds like it would be used to a... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291767 |
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| Edit | Post #291767 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Should details tags work in comments? Comments aren't for content. They are for working with the author to make a better post. Put another way, they are supposed to be meta about the post. While some basic formatting can be useful, there is no need for "fancy" formatting to serve the meta purpose. There is very little legitimate re... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |