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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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| Comment | Post #280419 |
Of course the whole concept of rep on a meta site doesn't make much sense in the first place. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280407 |
It sounds like you want indexed documentation, not a FAQ. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Monica: See addition to the question. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280399 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280379 |
Please take some measurements before and after so that we can all learn from Writing's experiment. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Judaism seems to have gotten started well. Are you getting new people from elsewhere regularly, or is it that there is enough interest already among the Codidact folks? It helps that it's more of a community discussion among peers (at least that's my impression) than strict Q&A. It's not a bunch o... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Despite all the above, the EE site is growing more slowly than I had hoped. Achieving critical mass is *hard*. This is why there should be a plan for it before a site is launched. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
I did some deliberate outreach. I personally contacted a number of people I knew, told them about the new site, and asked them to spread the word. I put a prominent link to the new site on my SE profile. (I'm a bit dismayed that some of the other founders didn't do the same, and kept answering qu... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
@celtschk: I didn't put quotes around the title. If the search string is so specific that it only matches the one question title on the whole internet, then the test isn't very useful. Still, it might be something to try. I've noticed that search engines don't actually seem to take quotes that ser... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: See update to the question. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280377 |
It seems you are really looking for a platform for publishing rants, not for asking questions. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
A problem we haven't solved yet is launching new communities with a plan that gives them a reasonable chance of success. Most people discussing a new community here will be the answerers, not the askers. Since we can't expect many of the askers to be here, there should be a plan to attract them. R... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
@celtschk: As I said in a previous comment, deleting the untouched stuff would be a good first start, then see where that gets us. The evidence of spillover is from the test I did. I copied the title of the question exactly into the search bar. Still, Google showed two results with looser matches ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: It would be interesting to try the first two experiments on the Judaism site to see how much limited imports effect things. Someone that knows the topic should do that so that they can pick generic questions with lots of stuff already out there on the web. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280356 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: What sites did selective imports? (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280084 |
Post edited: Fixed title, removed irrelevant (and therefore consfusing) comments, and questions about other site. |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
There have to be some over-arching rules for any site in the codidact.com domain. How many users are effected Codidact-wide, versus how many are on sites with imported content, and that actually want to keep that content? At some point there is a threshold where something needs to be done to protec... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
I suspect that you're right and the number of imported questions with local answers is small. Keeping those probably (hopefully?) won't hurt us much with the search engines. We could delete all but those, then see what that does to search results a month later, if the sites really want to keep thos... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
It is a global Codidact issue because apparently imported content in one site effects all the others. We should work with the effected communities as best as possible, but deleting imported content is for the health of Codidact overall. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280356 |
There is no edit button shown to me on *this* question either. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280356 |
@Monica: I clicked on the "edit URL" link in your comment, and was able to edit the question. So the system allows me to edit, but isn't showing the edit button for some reason. Strange indeed. I looked around, and this bug seems to apply to all my questions on sites where I'm not a mod. I don't ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280356 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280318 |
@Monica: Only mods should be able to change the list, but ordinary users should be able to see what is going on if only on the ground of openness. For example, perhaps someone disagrees with the choices. That would be a valid discussion for meta. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280328 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280212 |
@Monica: If someone truly just fixed a small typo in an old post, then bumping the post is not useful, and usually detrimental. I agree the problem of claimed minor edits really being minor is real. That's why I suggested moderators being able to review minor edits, as they can do now with comments... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280211 |
Minor edits can still be useful. If flagged correctly, then it shouldn't matter if a comment was posted right before the edit. Minor edits should only be for fixing obvious typos, spelling, grammar, etc. Anything that actually changes the meaning should not be flagged as a minor edit. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280209 |
Yes, same here. It seems no matter how much I look over a post before posting, I always find something to fix right after posting. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280212 |
I agree it would be nice to have a "minor" edit type that doesn't bump the post. However, how do we decide what is minor? I'm not comfortable trusting everyone to be truthful about an edit being minor. Perhaps this is a higher ability than edit. Moderators should be able to review all minor edits... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280143 |
And another. I'll assume this would go on indefinitely, but I'm not going to keep writing more comments. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280143 |
Yup, another comment box popped up, as you reported. I hadn't noticed that before. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280143 |
This is a test comment to see what happens when I click Post. Using Edge on Win10. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280126 |
Yes, this works, but it's a bad idea. Links rot. If content was important enough so that it needed to be shown directly in a post, then it needs to reside here. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280115 |
Wow, I didn't know there was such a thing. I still don't know how to get there except via the link you provided above. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280084 |
Suggested edit: Fixed title, removed irrelevant (and therefore consfusing) comments, and questions about other site. (more) |
helpful | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280084 |
You have now significantly changed the proposal from Biology+Chemistry to just Biology. That really should be a different proposal. In any case, the "feed all these birds with one seed" comment makes no sense anymore. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280084 |
Biology and chemistry are different topics, and should be in different sites. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280078 |
I can see @Moshi's suggested edit just fine. Using Edge on Win10. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280058 |
On second thought, not a popup, but a check box in the post editor. The default is checked, meaning you will be notified of changes unless you opt out. As long as it's not too easy to overlook, that would be better than a popup. Did I mention that I really hate nanny-ware? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280058 |
I like the "follow" idea. That's a general mechanism that could be useful for other things too. When you edit a wiki post, maybe you get a popup that gives you the option to follow the post, with the default being "yes". That way you know it's happening, and it's easy to opt out. I don't think ed... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280055 |
I saw that and thought it looked stupid too. Make the text in the blue box editable, with the default being what is shown above. Most of the time, it will be a reference to a question. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |