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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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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 5 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 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 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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| Comment | Post #276264 |
@Art: See addition to question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276264 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 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 5 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 5 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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| Edit | Post #276227 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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Preview keeps jumping up and down In the last day or so, the preview when writing a post keeps jumping up and down. Even just typing a few characters causes this over the next few seconds. I think I see what's going on. Whenever you make a change, something saves the new version as a draft after a short timeout. So far so good.... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276226 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: General Engineering Codidact Website I was active on the SE Engineering site (still #2 all time, although I haven't been there for 1½ years). My perception as to why it never really took off is: Too broad. The site was not so much about anything in particular, as any engineering that didn't fit on a more specific site, l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276220 |
@Art: Maybe the image button should produce HTML instead of markdown? Unfortunately, the image button seems to be the only way to get an image stored on the server, and then for me to get the URL. Is there some other way I'm missing? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276220 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Problem with adding images to answer Here is a example. In the preview I'm seeing the markup text instead of the picture. Now I'll post it and see what it looks like then. Image alt text After the picture. I did some more experimenting, and if I just type and add a picture it works. I ran into this problem originally afte... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276218 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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Problem with adding images to answer I was writing an answer, which included two images. Something seems to be broken with the markup text generated by clicking the image icon. I clicked the icon, and entered the pathname of the image file. Some markup got inserted, as expected. However, the preview window showed the markup text, ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276214 |
Seems like we're conflating validation with signing up to a particular site. Validating the user (getting and checking user ID and password) should only be required once across all sites. However, getting on the list of "users" of a site should be a deliberate action, if only once. No need to veri... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276168 |
Closing and making the OP repost is a little tedius. That's good. There needs to be some cost to posting in the wrong place. And, the question shouldn't just be copied exactly to the new site. It should be looked over and edited for the different target audience. Most likely, something should be... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276162 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: An alternative approach to the view order of answers You only consider the case of an old but good answer losing value over time. That's relatively unusual compared to time hasn't changed anything, and the voting reflects the quality of the answers. If you want to fix a corner case, you first have to make sure it doesn't break the normal case. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276140 |
Even embedded programming is split into two broad categories. 1 - You're on a general purpose computer with a mainstream operating system. It's only embedded because the end user can't run their own programs on it. 2 - You're on a microcontroller, maybe with a real-time kernel but no real OS. Iss... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275969 |
@King: It's a minor "nice to have". I wouldn't want to see it compete with the many more important things the devs have to do. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276111 |
@Art: Did you get pinged by this? You would have on SE. The first three letters was enough there, and I almost always follow with a colon to delineate the name from the text. With some names, it can appear they are part of the text unless you see the @ sign and mentally parse what is really going ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275972 |
@Peter: I already did it using HTML. It worked fine. As far as I can tell, there is nothing markdown can do that the HTML support in posts can't. The only issue is grabbing an image file and putting it in the appropriate place on this server. As far as I can tell, that can only be done by clickin... (more) |
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