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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #289200 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289200 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289109 |
I'm not seeing any "privileges" option in moderator tools. See screen shot in updated question. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289108 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289014 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288976 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287838 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287838 |
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— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288918 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 |
Post edited: Fixed to use the correct term "animated" instead of "dynamic" avatar. |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288609 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288393 |
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288393 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: We need to talk about Abilities coupling permissions with specific experience in the area of the permission is a good idea and should be kept as the basic premise of the permission system. I disagree. This is the basic flaw of the current abilities/permission system. It is trying to be overly specific and misses the forest for... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288287 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: How does displaying users in the "users" tab work? But I was surprised to see that most of those users were all 1 point users with very generic looking profiles. I expected older users to be the ones with more points. Isn't that the case? I also checked out the software development community and electrical engineering community and sorted the user li... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288235 |
You use the terms "ActivityPub" and "Fediverse" without definition. No, I'm not going to chase them down just to understand your post. You're the one trying to make a point, so it's your job to explain specialized jargon with a sentence or two. You can then link to more detailed information if you... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288241 |
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288241 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: "Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option It should be a flag. If a post needs author attention, then it's not ready to be answered and should be closed. Until we get a better close mechanism, this is the only way ordinary users can contribute to getting a question closed. Effectively, only mods can close questions here, so this flag is... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288162 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities This is a step in the right direction, but I think the new system will still have a few problems: Mixing all the question for all the proposals together in a single category will be quite off-putting to asking questions. If someone is interested in underwater basket weaving, all the questions abo... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288122 |
I just realized that filters would need and option to show your own questions regardless of score (or other rules) to be the default for new users. Otherwise, if someone posts a question and it gets downvoted it will seem to have disappeared. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288122 |
Nice work. It looks like a filter can be built that only shows posts with 0 or positive score. That might be a good default for new users. It should give a better first impression. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288071 |
Suggested edit: Removed irrelevant fluff (more) |
declined | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287897 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers? Any text you didn't write yourself must be set off in a quote box and attributed. I believe this is already existing policy, and applies regardless of where the quoted text came from (like another person or an AI). Failing to properly quote and attribute others' words as your own is plagiaris... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287889 |
I would say that the votes on the previous law community proposal you linked to was due to how very poorly it was written, not against the idea (such as it could be determined from the proposal). I was one of the downvoters, and that was my reason. I could support a well defined law community propo... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287839 |
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— | about 2 years ago |