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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277450 |
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| Edit | Post #277450 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277421 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #277408 |
See also https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277052. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277291 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277269 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276940 |
@Martin: Sorry, fixed. Or maybe I should have said "Jolly good, right-o". :-) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276940 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277052 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #277072 |
It would help to have a "poll" category type. This is where each page is a single question that presents a series of options, and users vote on those options. The question would have to specify whether options are mutually exclusive, or cumulative (vote for your top pick versus vote for all you fav... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277052 |
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| Edit | Post #277052 |
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| Edit | Post #277052 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Can't post images on Outdoors I can't post images in answers on the Outdoors site, like for example here. When I click on the image button, nothing happens, or a little text pops up above the button too quickly to read. However, the exact same thing works fine on other sites. I tried it on Photography, Electrical Engineering... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277029 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Should be allowed to vote on answer to own question I wrote a question on a site I hadn't been to before, and got an answer. I tried to upvote the answer, but was shown: Image I only have 1 rep (should start at 0, but that's another matter), so I can understand why I wouldn't be allowed to vote all over the place. However, voting on an answer ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277020 |
@pnuts: Neither of those links are very relevant because they are about titling things to sell, where marketing and emotional appeal make a difference. Here we want to describe. In any case, I think I understand your thought process, it's just that I disagree with it applied to this site. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277020 |
I also disagree that titles shouldn't repeat information in tags. Tags aren't content, and aren't available when all you see is the title. Your Google Sheets is a great example. I would want to know it's about Google Sheets (assuming that's relevant at all) before going into the question. Tags ar... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277020 |
But that's simply not how the thought process works when writing a question. I understand the goal, but trying to force an awkward process on those writing a question isn't the answer. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277015 |
I think you are talking about the order when writing a question, not when viewing. If that is true, you should be more clear about it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277017 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Why does the title come after the body when writing a question? This has bugged me too. To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed. When I click on the button to write a new question, the first thing I want to write is the title. I remember the first few times thinking "What the...? Where do I put the title?... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276940 |
@pnuts, If you didn't get pinged, you should raise that as a bug. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276940 |
@pnuts: Since I'm not familiar with the term "minced meat", I took it on face value from the question that it means the same as "ground beef" here in the US. In any case, it was just an example to illustrate the point, with the example definition meant to be more humorous than correct. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276941 |
Escape doesn't close it either. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276940 |
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| Edit | Post #276940 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Should tags be written in American or in British English? Most English speakers are aware of the difference on the other side of the pond, at least for common terms. As an American, I wouldn't be bothered by a Brit using "lorry" or "colour", although I might misunderstand "minced meat" at first glance. However, it would be very off-putting if I were for... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276937 |
I saw that, but there was no explanation what a "RSS feed" was, so I ignored it. Does that mean it will send me email? How does one go about receiving the content of a "RSS feed"? You mention "feed reader". That sounds like yet another app I'd need to keep running, which is not desirable. (more) |
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