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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290736 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290680 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290649 |
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— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290650 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290649 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290495 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288918 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290394 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290293 |
What's a "decorative" image? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290033 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289991 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289918 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289730 |
You have now edited the question to change it in a major way, invalidating existing answers. If you want to ask something different from the original question, ask a new question. Flagging for moderator attention. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289734 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more Go ahead and flag the whole comment thread as no longer needed. I'm a moderator on EE, and wouldn't mind receiving such a flag. Maybe some day when site activity gets much higher that might be an issue, but not now nor any time soon. I'd rather get the flag than have a useless comment hanging ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289733 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Feature request: direct messages In addition to what Mithical said (+1), if we do ever get a direct message system, it must be opt-out by default. In other words, it must take a deliberate action by a user before they can receive direct messages. facilitate some misunderstands and clarification if those without the need for a pu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289587 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289449 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289449 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289438 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289236 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289215 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 |
Post edited: Changed to feature request now that it's clear such a feature does not currently exist. |
— | over 1 year ago |