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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
@Moshi: Right, but this isn't in the Site Proposals category. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279064 | Question closed | — | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
Why is there a different permalink URL in the first place? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279086 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279076 |
This is a very nannyish attitude, and just not how most people's thought process works when writing a post. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278998 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278962 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278962 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278956 |
People will do what people will do. All you can do is not attach much meaning to the result. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278894 |
It shouldn't be allowed because it's obnoxious to the rest of the users. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278857 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278857 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278722 |
Adding more formatting features to comments will only invite more abuse of comments. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
*"Our top fifty contributors will receive Codidact stickers!"* Do we even have 50 posts per week across all sites? It seems like much less to me. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278542 |
@Moshi: Sorry about getting attribution to you wrong. When you're editing a question, you can't see the comments anymore. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278542 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278542 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Suddenly need to sign in every visit In the last few days, something has changed so that I now have to sign in again every visit to Codidact. This is using the same browser on the same machine as before (Edge, Win 10) which worked fine previously. I think it was months since I had to sign in before. Yes, I have the "remember me" bo... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
Would you still care about auto-save being disabled if there were a "Cancel Changes" button? It seems to me that is the real issue. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278493 |
The last-seen time is for everyone else. It's something that users shouldn't be able to hide. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278505 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? status-declined I would like a way to disable Markdown by default in posts I write. The HTML formatting is richer, and it's what I use because I don't feel like having to remember yet another set of formatting syntaxes. One big disadvantage of Markdown is that it's too easy to trigger by acc... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278504 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? whether your votes are public or private by default I would probably use that, but it also shouldn't be a big deal to click the appropriate button at the time of voting. Maybe this is to make the immediate voting interface less cluttered, but there still has be a means to override the default at ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278487 |
You can just delete everything. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
This is usually built-into browsers. Alt left-arrow is pretty universal, there is often a left arrow near the top left corner, and also a menu entry somewhere. Do these not work for you somehow, or are you expecting every web page to have a go-back button? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Moshi: Then they could just ask if I'm over 18, or whatever the relevant age threshold is. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278441 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
I couldn't get to the linked post on Discord. I thought I had an account there, but *after* making me go thru captchas, it would then tell me it didn't like my email address. When I tried to create a new account, it wouldn't proceed until I gave it my birth date. What the …!? I don't see a legiti... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278441 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: General discussion on making votes public I know this is not a popular stance, but I agree with you. I have seen first hand the problems caused by anonymous voting on SE, especially anonymous downvotes. Whenever there is a way to do any harm without being identified, vandals will do so, or it will be done for personal reasons and not the... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278404 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278404 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE If you create such a feature, at least make it optional per site with the default off. I would be strongly opposed to any direct import from anywhere else to the Electrical Engineering site, for example. There is really no necessity for imports. If a user wants to bring over one of their own que... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278392 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |