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| Edit | Post #276753 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes? All the proposals so far are missing what people really want to know, which are two orthogonal metrics: How good/bad the crowd thinks the answer is. How heavily the crowd has weighed in. The first tells you how much to believe the answer, and the second how much to believe the first poin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276675 |
Your new calculations remove the important overall metric of site participation, which you mention in your quoted requirements. The "at least 15 well received questions/answers" got lost in your new calculations. In addition to demonstrating they can perform the particular action well, we want user... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276675 |
*So if we set the thresholds right we don't also need to specify minimum numbers of events.* But that's less intuitive. A threshold is easier to understand and set. Easy understanding and control should be more important that internal math. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276590 |
@Sigma: Because when you don't participate for real, you will have a different view of what a good question is. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276641 |
The link text doesn't need to match the link content. You could have "Codidact Cooking site" link to the URL. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276650 |
I agree, a manual save would be better. The auto-save right now is too aggressive, and that jumping up and down of the preview due to the auto-save message being added then removed is really distracting. I'd rather not have auto-save at all. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276590 |
@Monica: Yes, how well accepted close flags are is a good metric. But, it's just one metric. There still needs to be some participation threshold, "skin in the game". You don't want a close-class of user emerging where all they do is close questions without actually participating in the site in a ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276590 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Scoring System for Trust Level Requirements I'm therefore proposing that we use this same scoring system to 'score' each individual requirement in the Trust Levels: (accepts + N) / (accepts + rejects + 2N), for N=2. This is good enough for as measuring the success of some specific activity. However, trust should be earned with a user's bro... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276578 |
@aCVn: I don't know what you mean by "selecting". I just tested the process again, and you have to hit ENTER before the image is uploaded. Nothing happens "automatically" that I can see. Until I deliberately hit ENTER, the image isn't uploaded. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276578 |
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| Comment | Post #276581 |
@mana: OK, I'll go accept the changes. Now that you point them out, I can see what changed, but I can also see there is nothing pointing out the changes. That needs to be fixed. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276581 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Pending edit review should highlight changes There is a pending edit on one of my posts. When I click on Review Changes, I get a page showing two versions of the post side by side. The problem is, there are no obvious changes. It's not even clear which side is pre-edit and which post-edit. Either there aren't actually changes, and the s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276578 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Don't upload images automatically Please no! All those "Are you sure" popups are annoying. You get used them, and then they don't serve their intended purpose anymore anyway. Then you'd have to add "Are you really sure?", and "Are you really really sure?", etc, popups. It's your job to be sure in the first place. Let's keep ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276574 |
Huh? What reveiews? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276539 |
A downvote on a bug report can mean various things, like *"RTFM, moron"*, *"it shouldn't be bothering you, get over it"*, or *"maybe it's technically broken, but this is such a silly nit-pick that I wouldn't want to see the developers waste their time even reading this request"*. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276542 |
Note that the suggestors are usually the experts, and are the ones that answer questions, not ask them. They need to draw in the askers. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276547 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What should happen with inactive communities? What should be done in these cases? Should we just wait and let the site open? Should we train some monkeys to write questions? Should we "freeze" the site and provide the contents for download? Should we close it down? Let it be. The only real harm inactive sites are doing is to their own futu... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276413 |
Yeah, I just wasted some time reading a lengthy new question on Scientific Speculation, only to find it was 4 years old with lots of answers. Argh! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276339 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Comment character count does not reset when posting the comment It seems to me that the real problem is a new blank edit box appearing after having just posted a comment. This just invites abuse of comments. If you had to click "Add a comment" again, the length would probably start at 0 automatically. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276337 |
That brings up another point, which is why is there a new edit box in the first place after having just posted a comment. That's just inviting people to abuse comments, like what I'm doing here to make a point. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276337 |
Ah, I see you're talking about a *second* comment. I see it resets immediately when I start typing. Maybe it shouldn't for consecutive comments, since now people can get around the length limitation by posting multiply comments. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276337 |
I'm not following. To me, the character count goes away after posting a comment. Since it's gone, there is nothing to reset. OK, testing here, am now at 164/500. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276334 |
@aCVn: OK, but whatever you call it, it is still valuable feedback to see how things you wrote were received. That's what I'm asking for. On SE this was called "rep". (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276334 |
Codidact needs to get over its disdain of rep. It's useful, even important, on certain types of sites. Unfortunately, there are some that see rep as evil, and don't want others to have it. While seeing votes scaled by age of post could be useful, just having a recent history of voting activity on ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276332 |
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| Edit | Post #276332 |
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| Edit | Post #276332 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Show me the rep! Now that we are getting some activity on the EE site, I'm discovering features I used more than I realized on SE. On SE, you could go to your activity > reputation and see all the recent votes you received. You could also look at your question and/or answer history sorted by rep. I miss both ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276280 |
Please make the name something most people (not just jews) can recognize. "MiYodeya" is rather annoying in that regard. Imagine if the subject of every site could only be recognized by those familiar with the subject. There would be a lot of people wasting time ultimately figuring out sites are no... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276272 |
I can see "Test Image" for all 4 image types. Using Edge on Win10. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276264 |
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| Comment | Post #276264 |
@Art: See addition to question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276264 |
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| Edit | Post #276264 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Echo of typing in posts is *very* slow. I was just writing an answer on the EE site, and what was shown in the edit window (not even the preview) was way behind my typing. This made it very tedious, to the point of being unusable. I was going to write more, but gave up. In one case I timed it, and it took 5 seconds for what I typed to... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275962 |
Non-judgmental is a delusional phantasy. *Of course* people will judge you by what you write, and then will naturally react to you accordingly. When someone naively says they want "non-judgmental", they are really saying they don't want to hear about the judgements, usually because they fear lookin... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276237 |
OK, thanks for the explanation. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276233 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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First image file name entry line doesn't work When you click on the image icon icon to insert an image into a post, you get the popup Image upload popup However, there is no way to type the image name there. The cursor isn't put onto the file name entry line, and just typing does nothing. Clicking on the entry line brings up a whole new ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276227 |
@Dave: Or eliminated altogether. I'm not sure what it's telling me that I really need to be so urgently aware of. OK, so save a draft, but stop bothering me about it every time you do. I'm unlikely to rely on the system saving drafts anyway. If the message has to be there, then permanent with perh... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276228 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Network-wide sign in created accounts for me on all sites even though I had no accounts there beforehand Here is another possible user presentation to this problem. Anyone can visit a site and look around. This doesn't sign them up to the site. They won't show up in the user list. The first time you try to do something on the site, you get a popup. It explains that you need to "join" the site to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276214 |
@Art: One issue is that I might not want my name associated with a particular site. It also pollutes the site statistics. As someone managing a site, I can't tell how many "real" users we have. (more) |
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