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| Comment | Post #289587 |
My comment about English not being everyone's first language was meant to show that we understand, and give some slack accordingly. The occasional misspelling or wrong tense is forgiven, especially when the writer appears to be trying. We understand spelling and grammar rules can be tricky.
Howe... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
<i>i dont and will never capitalize a random word becuase its norm, its dumb.</i>
That's not a good strategy. Every language has its quirks. Some developed over time and can seem arbitrary and silly today. However that doesn't mean you get to ignore them if you want to be taken seriously. Capi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289587 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week Just like on SE, things are vastly different between individual sites. You say you came from StackOverflow. Our most similar site is Software Development. It does seem to have reasonable activity, and there aren't any 8 year old questions there. That's because we deliberately didn't import existi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289449 |
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| Edit | Post #289449 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How to avoid triggering mathjax? Apparently, two dollar signs in a paragraph cause the text between them to be interpreted as mathjax. How can this be avoided so that dollar signs can be written literally? I tried escaping the dollar sign with a "\\" before it, and also using the HTML entity "&dollar;". Neither of those wor... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289438 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Who should be able to create new tags? Currently, those users that know the least about tag policy are the ones generally creating tags. New users shouldn't be allowed to create tags arbitrarily. It takes some experience with the site and the tag policy to create good tags and not make a mess (as has already happened). Tag creation s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289269 |
For #1, let there always be a checkbox. It is then something the reviewer approves along with the changed text.
#2 seems overly complicated. I don't see the advantage of bumping after a delay. The end result is the same after a short period of time.
In general, trust people to indicate wheth... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289236 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Indication that I have flagged a post You can find all the flags you've raised, their text, current status, and moderator response. Click on your profile in the top right corner. Then in the lower right of that you'll see "Flags raised" with a count. Click on the count. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289208 |
As long as this is optional and not the default, I don't care. Personally, I find 2FA annoying. I just want to get on with things, and now I have to find my phone, go fetch email (possibly on a different computer), or whatever. It's always a hassle. I put up with it in cases where it matters, lik... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289214 |
What's the point of having a limit. The description should be as long or short as it takes to provide the proper guidance. Only humans can judge that. Nannyware imposing arbitrary min and max lengths doesn't increase quality. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289215 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response This is in response to something that happened on the Math site, but it's really a Codidact-wide issue. A week or two ago, someone posted a poorly written question. Not surprisingly, the question wasn't well received. However, I did write a few comments that pointed out confusions, asked for cla... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 |
Post edited: Changed to feature request now that it's clear such a feature does not currently exist. |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How to send message to mod other than by flag? Is there a way to send a message to a moderator without raising a flag? If yes, please explain. If no, consider this a feature request. I tried to send a message to a mod about a question that got deleted, so there was no way for me to do that with a flag. I ended up flagging an unrelated post ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
I gave you the tag editing ability (while I was in there already giving you the post editing ability) yesterday. You should be able to do these things, if there available from the system at all. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
I'll let the admins answer this question, but please don't use the workaround of creating and deleting a dummy question. That triggers various activity indicators and possibly notifications, would look really bad on the front page for a while, etc. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289119 |
This is an aside to your valid question here. However, in that tag wiki, div doesn't make any sense. You are trying to give a range of forward voltage for different LEDs. A dash would convey that. The DIV symbol specifically means divide. You're not dividing the two LED voltages. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289109 |
Thanks. The picture helped a lot. I never noticed that button before. (Or maybe I did at one time, and forgot about it since then. Looking back, I must have used it in the past for other user-specific actions). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289109 |
I'm not seeing any "privileges" option in moderator tools. See screen shot in updated question. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Let moderators grant abilities. As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users. Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be consequences. A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back. Suppose an ordinary user decid... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289014 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles Get rid of all that stuff. Having an easy way to make a link to a few kaffeeklatch platforms that are currently popular doesn't add much value. Users can already add any links they want to their profile. That's even better since they then get to chose how the link is presented, what's said aroun... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289013 |
Why do we need any of this? Users can already put whatever links they want, presented in whatever way they want, in their profile. And, there is no maximum limit or any additional fields to fill in. I don't see why Codidact should have special facilities to point to a few pre-chosen selected place... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
@#53890 I only access Codidact from a desktop. The issue is that I didn't read everything in your post. I read the title and looked at some of your example, and they all seemed to have scroll bars. I didn't notice that the two very long lines you show didn't have scroll bars, as that didn't seem t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
@#60967 Then the title needs to be fixed. That was certainly not clear from a quick skim. The point seemed to be about long lines, not lacking scroll bars. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288976 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Some code blocks extend into the right hand panel on desktop Code blocks are for showing source code, where lines must be shown as written. Wrapping could change the meaning. Long lines in code blocks must be shown as long lines. The best the system can do is provide a horizontal scroll bar. It looks like it is, so I don't see the problem. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287838 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287838 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
That makes sense. There is no legitimate reason to post an empty message. That's probably an accident anyway, so good to trap. Otherwise, keep the system out of the way of author intent. +1 (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288918 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Get rid of minimum character requirements Various places in Codidact where a user enters text seem to have a minimum character requirement. If you enter fewer characters than that, the system keeps the "submit post" button greyed out, pops up a message that a minimum number of characters are needed, or the like. Let's get rid of these li... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 |
Post edited: Fixed to use the correct term "animated" instead of "dynamic" avatar. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
@Monica Yes, I apparently meant "animated". I didn't now what the correct official term was. I edited my post to fix this. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Let's not allow animated avatars. The first animated avatar someone has used here (https://cooking.codidact.com/posts/288814) points out that we don't have any rules addressing them. Let's not allow this. This falls into the same category as someone using all blanks in a user name, a profile picture that is all the background col... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288609 |
Just do it. As you say, that should have been the default anyway. Having to discuss this on meta on every site will just add noise, take a long time, and sometimes never reach a clear consensus. If you just do it and explain after the fact, I doubt there will be much drama. Think of this it as a ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288609 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: How discussions work in Codidact? Votes on meta should mean agreement or disagreement with whatever the post is proposing. Corolary: That means meta votes should not count towards rep. It is not "bad" to disagree with someone. We expect some range of opinions within a community. Users shouldn't be penalized or rewarded for ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288421 |
It's not clear when criteria are combined by AND or OR. Your second example also doesn't take general site experience into account. 10 edits with 75% success might be a good threshold for a newbie, but an established user with 50 posts, 95% positive, and an average +2 per post should be allowed to ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |