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| Edit | Post #279709 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279708 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279663 |
@luap42: Great, thanks. That wasn't clear from the response to my question. The only answer I got was more about railing against rep than addressing my question. I realize you guys are busy. *"It's on our list of things to do, but probably not for a while."* is a perfectly good answer. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279663 |
Yes, please! I asked for something like this 5 months ago, but it was ignored because I mentioned "rep". https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276332 I really miss being able to see which of my posts people liked or disliked over the last day or so. Now I can see my rep going up, but it's really di... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277100 |
How is this going? As deleted content accumulates, it's getting harder and harder to see what ordinary users see. I think only two states are needed, "moderator view" and "normal view". This would apply to deleted answers as well. The button to toggle the view would be off the side somewhere, so ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279613 |
I always thought starting at 1 was silly. Everyone should start at 0, then work their way up (or down) from there. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279468 |
@Zero: Go ahead. The more info we can provide to diagnose this problem, the better. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279468 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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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) |
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| Comment | Post #279371 |
We don't need more nannyware. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279198 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279064 |
@Moshi: Right, but this isn't in the Site Proposals category. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279064 | Question closed | — | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
Why is there a different permalink URL in the first place? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279086 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279076 |
This is a very nannyish attitude, and just not how most people's thought process works when writing a post. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278998 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278962 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278956 |
People will do what people will do. All you can do is not attach much meaning to the result. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278894 |
It shouldn't be allowed because it's obnoxious to the rest of the users. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278857 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278857 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community? It seems that two things are required for a new site to be successful: A core group of domain experts that commit to being around to answer questions, and initially, to do the housekeeping. Getting the word out. Somehow those people with questions need to know to ask here. I think 3 com... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278722 |
Adding more formatting features to comments will only invite more abuse of comments. (more) |
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