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| Comment | Post #292444 |
I just went to check the latest site proposals and was reminded that there is no voting on proposals. Users can endorse them at different levels, but can't up or down vote proposals. I had forgotten about that and took it at face value that your proposals were getting downvoted when I wrote my prev... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
I take the negative votes to mean those users think the proposal is flawed. They believe (I presume) that the proposal in its current form would not be a benefit to Codidact, or that it would be a significantly higher benefit if fixed.
Unfortunately, the site proposal mechanism doesn't allow for ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
*"everybody who should upvote to embrace a new idea, is just not voting at all."*
So you are the official judge of what should be voted on and how!!? You might stop and consider that maybe, just maybe, the non-voters don't think much of the proposal. I know, what a shocker! Some people have the... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292455 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
If you have such a large image, it is very likely that it contains way more detail than necessary. If you let the system compress it, then you have no control over what detail exactly gets removed. There are many image editing tools out there. Cropping the image to strip off the irrelevant areas, ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292455 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Allow including larger images The maximum size limit should not get in the way of legitimate and properly edited images. A 1920 x 1080 screen has 2.1 MPixels. Just about any compression algorithm should be able to get that down to 2 MB without losing any real information, especially considering that large areas of most screens ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292337 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Should multiple whitespace characters in a row be permitted in usernames? In general we shouldn't allow user names that game the system or exploit loopholes with no real advantage to the user, and at the expense and annoyance of all the other users. The two dots with a long string of spaces between is just one example. It's hard to know what next "clever" hack someone ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292209 |
@#64277 Shadows would probably not confuse a diagram, but tend to be larger than borders and can still add visual clutter. Again, shadows and/or a border are OK as long as they are optional. Much of the time there is no confusion, and a clean look is desirable. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292209 |
My main use of images is for posting schematics on the EE site. Those are black on white line drawings, where the black lines have specific meanings. Enclosing something like that with a black border if there are already lines going off the edge would cause confusion. Are those lines part of the s... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292214 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Optional frames, borders or shadow around images Images should not be forced to have borders. If you are posting a diagram, for example, then it is already visually different from the rest of the post and the border may be confused as part of the diagram or add visual clutter. A border is usually unnecessary and would detract from photographs. ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291476 |
@#8046 *isn't that better than doing nothing?* That's the question. I'm not sure this issue is worth doing anything about. First, everybody just takes it as a given that bots crawling the site is harmful, but haven't really made arguments to that affect. Second, stopping a few bots that play by t... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291476 |
What you are saying is that since we can't actually block or even detect AI bots, all we can do is ask them not to scrape the site. That means only the responsible bots will stop, leaving the irresponsible bots. Doesn't sound any better. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291902 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Clicking on an avatar to see a user's profile preference between these two approaches? There are actually three approaches to consider, your two alternative proposals and leaving it alone. I don't have any preference between leaving it alone and making the avatar clickable. Having the avatar clickable is probably slightly more intuitive, ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291868 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291868 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: There should be a full moderation log visible to everyone First, I'm a moderator on EE. I agree that moderator actions should be publicly visible to "real" users. I wouldn't want any search bot out there being able to access the data. You'd have to be a real user that's been around a while and has shown enough activity to have some track record of not ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291862 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291862 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: What recourse is there for incorrect close/delete? Sometimes a moderator closes or deletes a question, but non-moderating users may see this as incorrect. Then discuss the particular case in meta for that site. Occasionally I see closures where the questions is valid, valuable ... can be answered in a useful way That's your opinion. There i... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291770 |
A discussion about which log files shouldn't include the log files themselves, at least not in any comments. A puzzle solution would be an answer. Answers don't belong in comments. I can't think of a legitimate reason why spoilers would be in comments. That again sounds like it would be used to a... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291767 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291767 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Should details tags work in comments? Comments aren't for content. They are for working with the author to make a better post. Put another way, they are supposed to be meta about the post. While some basic formatting can be useful, there is no need for "fancy" formatting to serve the meta purpose. There is very little legitimate re... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291579 |
This is backwards. Moderators are accountable for their actions, so shouldn't be hidden. And yes, I'm a moderator (on EE).
A serious problem Elsewhere was lack of openness and transparency. Letting moderators be anonymous makes it easier for abuse in the long run. The best solution for that is... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291474 |
Prohibiting activities should only be done for activities that are harmful, but you haven't provided any evidence that crawling the site for AI data is harmful. Also, we can't know what a crawler does with the data. You can only prohibit crawling or not, not crawling to gather AI training data vers... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291398 |
Right, but actually promising that possibly creates a legal requirement, so the weasel-words are needed. Also, as Monica pointed out, there are legitimate cases where it makes no sense to try to inform the guilty party.
Is it really so hard to trust that the people running the site will do the re... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291398 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: Terms of Service: contact on termination This is a minor thing to nitpick about. Read what it says: If you have provided contact details. You can't expect to be contacted if you haven't provided contact details. Other than when it's not physically possible, this does exactly what you ask for. The wording says the site "may" contac... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
<blockquote> It could also be that the seed community failed to form an attractive culture, and early adopters gave up on it.</blockquote>
But that's not what happened. All the posts are still there. You can see for yourself. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
<blockquote>I have contributed more content on those sites post pre and post migration than anyone else</blockquote>
Not true. I have contributed more on the Photography site than you or anyone else, as judged by all the other users. I just checked, and my rep is 961 versus your 557. Everyone e... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #291148 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #291148 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? site culture seems to be more like the "quality content" group. This is counter-productive to growing the site. Absolutely not! We strive to be a site where people can come to get good, reliable, peer-reviewed answers. Everything follows from that. As good questions result in good answers, ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
This isn't some free for all site where anyone can blurt out anything. We are trying to build a repository of <i>quality</i> questions and answers. Unfortunately what is in the overall site interest is not always in each individual user's interest. Most get it, and refrain from doing things detrim... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
<blockquote>so that other people can post an answer if they want.</blockquote>
That's exactly what we want to avoid. If bad questions weren't closed, then there will always be some do-gooder that wants to help the poor OP, people that just want to answer to look smart, and anyone else that looks ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291094 |
Even better, just lose those stupid minimums in the first place. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291043 |
NO! The default should always be no-nag. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290856 |
A single static picture would have sufficed, with maybe an arrow or circle drawn over it to point out the button. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290856 |
Maybe others find it helpful, but to me these animations are annoying and make it more difficult to understand your point. Something moving around while you're trying to get context and orient yourself is really distracting. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290968 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Should we change the dashboard layout? Let's not. The community order makes little sense as it is now (based on creation date?), but at least it is fixed. It's arbitrary, but you get used to where things are. It would be even worse if things moved around. Resources would be better spent on a customizable network-wide dashboard per u... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290941 |
Please, no animated <i>anything</i>! (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290917 |
Shouldn't this be on the Collab site? I thought that was the place for discussing the software itself. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290845 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Going back in browser encourages accidental duplicate posting. I wrote an answer to a question, followed a link somewhere, then went back in the browser (Alt back-arrow in my case). Somehow I managed to go back from where the answer was posted. I saw my answer in the edit window, and thought to myself "Oops, looks like I forgot to click SUBMIT", so did that.... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290843 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |