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| Comment | Post #277954 |
@Moshi: Because there is not need since it's already solved, and the developers have better things to do. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277954 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Allow users to link more than one website in their profile. As you say: they have no way of doing so (outside of putting it in the info box) Since you can put any links you want within your arbitrary info text, there is no problem to solve here. You can look at my profile as an example of this in action. I included a link to my resume in the info t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277943 |
Trying to communicate this level of detail with tags is pointless. Its would mostly be busy-work for the developers, and provide very little useful actionable information to the users. Let's not make things difficult for the volunteers that are developing this software. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
*are you fine with "a little delay" of a couple days?* Certainly. Even longer is fine usually, once we know the feature has been added or bug fixed, and it's just a matter of getting thru the pipeline. This is especially true for trivial features like the one you linked to in your question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
I can live with a little delay in the interest of making things easier for the developers, -1. While not perfect, Status-Completed when the code has been changed is good enough for me. Otherwise, the developers have to remember to come back to find outstanding "Code-updated" (or whatever) and chang... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277887 |
Thanks for posting this. I saw the activity too, then went looking for what change, but couldn't find it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277868 |
Ah, so you mean like those crossing light buttons that do nothing. Eventually the lights change so that you can cross anyway. But really, the auto-save is pretty quick. I think you'd have a hard time making a change, then scrolling down to a SAVE button and clicking it before the system did it for... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277875 |
I like your out of the box thinking, but I wouldn't want commenters to essentially litter my perfect post with little icons all over the place. I agree comments should be short and not too visually cluttering. How about the *quote* feature would only write the text in italics or different font, may... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277858 |
@pnuts: That would be favoring newer answers. The system should strive to not add bias to the voting. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277868 |
The draft saving is almost immediate. What would be the point? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277872 |
I've used italics for this purpose. Seems to work well enough and doesn't eat up a lot of space or add visual clutter like a blockquote would. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277855 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Randomize order of answers with same score Answers are shown in order according to their score derived from their votes. However, for answers with the same score, they seem to be shown in chronological order of creation time. This tends to "feature" earlier answers higher than later answers, even if the later answers have been rated the sam... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277577 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277577 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277568 |
References to images not hosted here shouldn't be allowed in the first place. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277574 |
Voting on people's ideas for new features means you get a consensus of whether the users as a whole would want these new features. That's quite useful. Dev time is limited. It should be spent creating features people actually want. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277577 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes why should anyone downvote a community proposal, like this post? Because they think it's a flawed proposal. That really should have been obvious. In the particular case you cite, note that you got many responses disagreeing with lumping physics and math together. I didn't vote at all, but if... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277567 |
I basically agree, +1. However, we need to be careful to make sure there are committed people behind each new community. Having a ghost town is worse than having nothing at all. The Photography site is a good example. People will come by, see the community is dead, and probably not come back. If... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277538 |
What is "FR"? I know of no such standard abbreviation. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277454 |
In your example, if someone does write your "apple" tag with upper case, it will appear to have a totally different meaning than intended, but the system won't catch "apple" and "Apple" as being different. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277450 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277450 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we allow capitalized tags? Capitalization is part of spelling. Tags should be allowed to be spelled correctly. Forcing all lower case not only looks stupid, but may lead to confusion. For example, "microchip" is quite different from "Microchip". If you don't think capitalization matters, consider the sentence I help... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277421 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: What html tags can we use in posts? I have tried to document all markups allowed in posts in a help page for the EE site. Let me know if you find anything not described there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277404 |
I don't know what all these fonts are called, but I rather like the one currently in use. I find it easy to read. "Challenging to read" is meaningless without concrete examples of what is confusing, and how it could be better. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277408 |
See also https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277052. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277345 |
*" I am stunned why some people being eager to have a math community strongly oppose this idea and downvote it."* Bystander here. I haven't voted on this proposal and don't plan to. But, you're not proposing a math community. You are proposing a math and physics site, which is what people are voti... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277318 |
Please don't add even more to Markdown. There are already too many ways to unintentionally trigger Markdown. Just a single star character and apparently sometimes a number sign makes a mess of formatting. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277284 |
Yup, migration on SE never really worked right. 2 - The question probably needs at least some-rewriting to fit the other site better. 3 - Someone that can't be bothered to learn the site and pay enough attention to post in the right place is no great loss. There is a downside to letting people do s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277291 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Request: Headings and footnotes act as link anchors Using numbers as references to the Nth heading is a bad idea. When a heading gets added or deleted, all the links out there will be wrong. If this is going to happen at all, it makes more sense to use the existing id="name" attributes on heading tags. That's already a well-defined standard. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277269 |
@Peter: Yes, chat could be more tolerable in categories that are not Q&A. However, in your particular example, comments still work just fine. I've done exactly that a few times. For example, see my comment to https://outdoors.codidact.com/questions/275790#answer-275872. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277269 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Is there a consensus on comment layouts for the MVP and beyond? Comments and chat serve two very different purposes. Comments should only be for communicating with the author about modifications to the post. These should not be conversations or chit-chat. In a lot of situations, allowing such chit-chat would seriously degrade what people come to the site for. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276940 |
@Martin: Sorry, fixed. Or maybe I should have said "Jolly good, right-o". :-) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276940 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277180 |
I agree with this proposal. Currently, it annoys me every time I write an answer. The first few times it was downright confusing. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277177 |
Since comments are inherently limited to a small size, why not just make the input area large enough to fit that? Then you don't need to scroll at all. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277179 |
Ctrl-I should be for image upload. Currently there is no substitute for physically clicking the button. Italics can be easily typed already using both HTML and Markup. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277052 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277052 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277101 |
*Privileges should arise from trust earned by doing things on the site.* Yes, and part of those "doing things" is providing content, so rep should still be part of most trust level threshold. However, my main point is that trust levels don't at all replace the other aspects of rep. I hear how rep i... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277072 |
@Monica: Yes, that would work even better. Then it can be used anywhere, like in various meta questions. Such a thing would probably be useful in the long run, although I wouldn't put it too high on the development priority right now. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277052 |
@ArtOfCode: See addition to question. Is there anything else I can do to help diagnose this? As it is now, I can't post any images on Outdoors. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277101 |
*reputation, to be replaced with trust levels*. You keep saying this, but rep and trust levels are two different things. Trust levels can be driven from things other than rep (although rep should continue to be some part of trust levels). However, a trust system doesn't address other aspects of re... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277072 |
@Doniel: The main difference between a poll as I described and the existing voting is that you get more than two choices in a poll. Monica is asking which of several levels people would engage with on a new site. A single yes vote doesn't tell whether you just like the idea, might drop by occasiona... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |