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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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| Edit | Post #287839 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? The mechanics of what you do now is best. The wording could be a little softer with better explanation. A grayed button or missing button will cause questions or bug reports. Dismissing an overlay is annoying, especially when ESC doesn't dismiss it. Going back to the previous page is easy and... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287838 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Miscellaneous Flag modal problems A solution to one of the issues you mention is to ditch the annoying nanny-ware and not require a minimum number of characters in the first place. Sometimes the meaning can be quite clear in a word or two. Length doesn't guarantee quality, and likely hurts quality when forced to add padding. I a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
30 suggested edits on other people's posts is <b>a lot</b>. I usually don't do suggested edits because of all the hassle and long lead times to get approved.
And yes, general activity and reputation <i>should</i> matter. What you want is someone familiar with the site and a proven record of post... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287834 |
<i>*"Why remove the ability to see them?"</i> Because if I can't do anything about the edit, I don't care. As others have pointed out, if I really want to watch such edits, there are already ways to seek them out. However, the vast majority of the time, the reason for looking over pending edits is ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287830 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve Now having a dot next to the "Edits" button to indicate pending edits brings up a new issue. It seems everyone is notified of all pending edits, whether they have the ability to approve them or not. Here is what I see when looking at the pending edits in Physics: Users should only be notifie... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276749 |
A single value will never work because there are two orthogonal metrics people want to know about a post: 1 - What the consensus is on how good/bad the post is. 2 - How much the post has been rated at all. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
Sorry, I meant deletion of an answer to an existing question. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
It would be better to indicate last activity was a question deletion. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287671 |
I'd rather get the complete list of pending edits right away. It will be a long time before this site has so much activity that anyone will want to partition the pending edits list, and even then most people will probably want to look at all pending edits on a site. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287671 |
I assume you're talking about a dot by the Edit button. That's good, but without also a dot by the category you may never enter the site from the dashboard to find there is a pending edit on that site. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287671 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287671 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How should we make pending edit suggestions more visible? I just ran into this issue. It doesn't seem to have changed from 2 years ago when this question was posted. As a mod on the EE site, I routinely check the recent comment activity. I saw a new comment, followed it to the post, and only then noticed there was a pending edit on the post. It was on... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287650 |
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| Edit | Post #287650 |
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| Edit | Post #287650 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Can't click notification icon Clicking on the notification icon: Doesn't do anything. I noticed this just now. It's probably been a month or more since the last time I had a notification. Back then it worked as expected (created a dropdown with individual notifications). What happens now is absolutely nothing, as if ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287483 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Questions previews were introduced: Can the layout be improved? Personally, I'd rather have the "preview" gone. It's too visually cluttering. Finding the time since last activity is a bit harder now. Yes, I know it's there, but for me at least, it takes more effort to pick it out of the noisy background. It's also more work now to scan down a page to see what... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287474 |
When I first saw the +, I thought clicking it would bring up more information, like a submenu. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287396 |
This should define *user script*, explaining roughly what they can do, how you run one, point do documentation about writing them, etc. Most people aren't going to know what a user script is in this context. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286795 |
I've wished I could center-align images before, but don't see a legitimate reason for center or right aligned text. At first glance it sounds like more ways an author can make a post annoying to read. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286756 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Filter to show only positive posts The advantage is that the casual visitor sees less crap. However, there are also downsides to this: It makes it hard to understand what the norms are. This is especially important for the same casual visitor that becomes a first-time poster. For example, if all the lazy homework questions are n... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286545 |
The one with the white lines on blue background looks like a tent, something that might mean "camping spot". I'm not sure what the other icon is supposed to be (a medieval sword shield?), but it certainly doesn't say "moderator" either. A 5-pointed star sheriff badge would be more of a clue, althou... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286479 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why are comments hidden by default? I agree that it should be easier to see comments than it is, but one difference here from Elsewhere is that we are trying to de-emphasize comments. As Elsewhere has abundantly demonstrated, if you don't reign in comments, they get used as answers, chit chat, and to circumvent closing of questions. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286478 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Remove "Post" terminology from sites other than META Questions are called "questions", and answers are called "answers". Sometimes you want to refer to such writings generically regardless of whether they are questions, answers, articles, papers, or whatever. "Posts" is the generic term used here, which seems reasonable enough. We need both the sp... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286443 |
@sam: That gets back to the problem of us being unable to vote to close. That's really the root of this. The correct response to a vague question is to ask for clarification, then vote to close immediately. That way the proper thing is done (assuming enough others vote to close too) automatically ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286443 |
So what do you propose to do about unresponsiveness? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286438 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286438 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Downvoting Response Delays I was the downvoter. After I wrote the comment, I noticed that it was actually 3 days since the question was asked, but I decided not to go back and edit it since then the title and body of the comment wouldn't match. (We can only edit bodies not titles). It is frustrating when you try to work w... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286224 |
@manas: You're right, we don't know, which is why I was careful to not accuse the OP outright. However, the vast majority of people that complained on SO about being treated with hostility did in fact post crap. From that and the general tone and writing style of the questions, chances are quite hi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286332 |
One problem with the current deletion is that posts are attributed to "Deleted user". The last-used name, or name at the time the post was made should be used instead, but noted that the user doesn't exist anymore. That helps others that might remember the interaction put the post in context, and a... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286305 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Make navigation bar optionally fixed at the top When I'm busy reading or writing an answer: I want as much of the window pixels devoted to the task at hand as possible. Don't want to be interrupted by notifications. Modern computers are already way too full of things that try to get my attention regardless of what I'm doing. Let's no... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286259 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Please make dashboard button/link easier to access Even though this was "completed" 4 months ago, I don't see anything called "dashboard" when viewing this question, or even in my profile. And yes, I scrolled all the way to the bottom. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286243 |
If someone suggested a change, and that change was made, there is no further use for those comments. They should be deleted. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286224 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286224 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow? Is codidact community as same as stack overflow ? No. Perhaps we are not doing enough to explain this, but that really should have been obvious in my opinion. Codidact is an organization that has created open-source software for Q&A sites, and also hosts a bunch of sites. Stack Overflow (SO) ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286159 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Is copying from other sites OK? Copying posts here from elsewhere can be allowed, but the rules of the other site must be followed. Check the license that applies to the post on the other site. It probably requires attribution unless you are the author. Many sites let the author retain ownership, but you need to check to be su... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286060 |
I just tried it on my account, and it worked fine. Is there anything you can think of that is different with your account than the ordinary? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |