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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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| 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) |
— | 6 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) |
— | 6 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291398 | Initial revision | — | 7 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) |
— | 7 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291148 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291148 | Initial revision | — | 8 months 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291094 |
Even better, just lose those stupid minimums in the first place. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291043 |
NO! The default should always be no-nag. (more) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 9 months 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290968 | Initial revision | — | 9 months 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290941 |
Please, no animated <i>anything</i>! (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290917 |
Shouldn't this be on the Collab site? I thought that was the place for discussing the software itself. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290845 | Initial revision | — | 9 months 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290843 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Minor suggested edits to old posts I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually none. One suggested edit made the title longer without adding any meaning, thereby making it worse. In most cases, the only change was the addition of a tag. The fact the quest... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290736 |
You're completely ignoring the point that we don't want to see all those edits. Activities like you suggest would have to bump those posts that were changed. That could drown out the new content that we do want to know about.
We don't want to dissipate volunteer energy on all those intermediate ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290736 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: A refactoring convenience function. If you want to evolve multiple questions from a long writeup, do it outside the site. There is nothing preventing you from writing as much text as you want as fast as you want into a file on your own system. Then, when you're ready, you can break up the brain dump into individual coherent posts. Y... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290680 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it If we let authors close their own questions, it should only be allowed if there are no answers. I wouldn't want to spend time on an answer to have it stuck in a closed question because the OP is planning on changing the question. Once an answer has been written, the question shouldn't change in mea... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290649 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290648 |
That response belongs in this thread, not where you put it. I deliberately created two comment threads because they were about two different topics. This one was supposed to be about examples where you didn't think a suitable title was possible. The other is about the principle that it really shou... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290650 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? Others have already pointed out that self-answering is not only allowed, but even encouraged when you've got some insight you think would be of value to others. Over at the Electrical Engineering site we've even taken this a step further with the Papers category. It can be a more appropriate way ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290648 |
<i>"I often don't know what else to name it"</i> is a cop-out, and is an excuse trying to give yourself permission to be irresponsible. Link to a few such comments. We can probably come up with reasonable titles that tell you <i>something</i> about the content. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290648 |
This is advocating sloppy practice that makes it harder for everyone else to use the system. You know what you just wrote. You can always find a few words that give some hint what the larger comment is about. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290649 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Why do we have "General comments" threads? The "General comments" title is a left-over from earlier versions of the software that didn't have comment titles. When the threaded comments were introduced, and thread titles with them, existing comments were put into a "General comments" thread. Every new thread should have a meaningful title.... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290495 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered on Dashboard I have been noticing a lot more unexplained activity bumps too lately. I thought it was because spam or whatever got deleted, and I couldn't see those deletions as an ordinary user. However, this morning I saw an activity indicator on the Electrical Engineering meta category. I'm a moderator the... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288918 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290394 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development? None currently, as I understand the scope of the existing communities. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290293 |
What's a "decorative" image? (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290033 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts? Not allowing fluff was the norm Elsewhere, and I consider it the norm here unless explicitly stated to the contrary. I am not aware of a community here that has stated they like content-free greetings, closings, and the like. I would therefore feel free to edit out such fluff, preferably shortly ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289991 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? Clutter refers to the unwanted or uninteresting stuff you have to dispense with before getting to what you want. On a Q&A site, that usually means low quality questions. These questions clutter up the site so that when you look around for good questions the low quality ones get in the way and make ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289918 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Outline of what makes a high quality question Your three pillars seem like a good way to describe three orthogonal aspects of question quality. However, you have devalued your own "question" here by introducing personal values onto your three pillars. If this question is about the three pillars, whether you agree how they should be valued or... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289879 |
If you are really after visibility, then use your real name. Unless your company is called "OverLordGoldDragon Consulting, Inc", then positive contributions associated with that name won't do you any good. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |