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| Edit | Post #285550 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description. User names have a purpose, which is to be a short handle to identify you across Codidact. They are not th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285549 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Users should be able to say what they want in their profile. I think of that as personal space. About the only thing that should not be allowed is a direct insult to another member. As with anything else you write publicly, you are still on the hook for libel if you misstate facts in a way to be... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285501 |
I don't really care about this "problem". To some extent, I actually like how it is. But, if it were to change I would forget about it soon enough, and certainly not try to get it changed back. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285501 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header? Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header? Eh, maybe, but it also doesn't seem like a problem to solve. One advantage of showing the selected category on the bottom line is that it can be bigger and bolder. It's easier to see at a quick glance what category yo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285473 |
@#53922: OK, done. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285483 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How many automatically created users that were never active are there still and what to do about them? Importing content was a mistake It may have sounded good at the time, but hindsight has now clearly shown that importing content from Elsewhere was a mistake. These dummy users are part of that. We should delete all imported content, which includes users that never showed up here in person. That... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285473 |
If we delete all content from these phantom users, then we don't need attribution links. We've got to stop clinging to this stuff. It has little value here, and search engines are going to favor the real thing over our copy. There is 0 upside. It's time to realize this was a mistake, delete it, a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285473 |
It may have sounded good at the time, but hindsight has now clearly shown that importing content from Elsewhere was a mistake. These dummy users are part of that. Personally, I think we should delete <b>all</b> imported content, which includes users that never showed up here in person. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285441 |
@Monica: That sounds good. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285441 |
@Monica: That makes sense about the boxes. I mentioned comments because you seemed to cover the rest. Basically I'm looking for something that tells me on a single line whether there has been any activity on that site since I last checked, and particularly if there has been any associated with me. ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285441 |
What you have looks great. It basically shows in one line what you want to know about all of "your" communities. I'm unclear what the boxes at left do, though. They look like they are meant to have an X in them or not. If they are just targets for re-ordering, then something smaller and solid wou... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285415 |
I can see how some people might want different "about" text on different sites. However, let's not optimize for the rare case. Most people probably want to write their <i>about</i> text once, and have that propagate to all sites. It would be quite confusing if you think you fixed a typo in your te... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285416 |
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| Edit | Post #285416 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What information should be displayed on a network profile? I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285257 |
If it's just about not having to remember another password, you can use the same password on your Google and Codidact accounts. That's no less secure than having them be the same account. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285257 |
<i>"What's the point?"</i> was also my first thought. You, or any one user, just wanting a feature isn't a justification for spending volunteer time implementing it. You're the one that wants the feature, so you need to provide some arguments as to why this feature would be beneficial to Codidact a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285249 |
@Trilarion: And it's still off by 10, so that's probably just a coincidence anyway. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285249 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Activity numbers don't add up I was just looking at Reports > Posts in the moderator tools of the Electrical Engineering site: The total numbers of questions, answers, and comments is believable. However, these don't agree with other places, nor with the numbers under "Categories". In the categories directly, it shows ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285221 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we remove closed questions from the question list? Closed questions should remain visible to the general users (unregistered and first-time users is a different issue). Reasons: It avoids site policy being enacted "behind closed doors". It illustrates what the norms are. Seeing what questions got closed can be useful, especially for new users... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285132 |
@Keelan: I agree the precise vote counts aren't that important in typical Q&A. Ratings are more important in some categories, like "Papers" in the EE site. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285122 |
This is not a discussion for main meta. We (the collective Codidact users across all sites) shouldn't be telling two specific communities what to do. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285132 |
I disagree with <i>what is actually important (the titles)</i>. The content is what is important, as is the quality of that content. Of course titles do need to be well written and properly give an idea what the question is about. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285126 |
@Lundin: That would also prevent voting on the closed question. Many closed questions are pretty bad. We need those downvotes to accumulate so that the system knows the question is bad. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285127 |
I like your general mechanisms, +1. However, the threshold of -1 to be shown is too low. I have looked over a number of sites where I know enough to be able to judge quality, and it looks like +1 is a good threshold. Most posts that everyone ignored aren't very good. Pretty much anything that got... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285143 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? I suggest we show questions in the list differently depending on their rating. Good questions are show as they are now. Poorly received questions are shown visually de-emphasized, like smaller text, less detail, and partially grayed out. Since it takes some time for questions to be rated by vote... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285142 |
What you say may be a good suggestion, but it doesn't address the problem of what to do when you end up with a bunch of low quality posts, regardless of what mechanisms are in place to prevent that. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285017 |
Do you have your bank account details listed someplace that is accessible from the US? That way I can do a free transfer from my on-line bank instead of a credit card company taking a piece, and my credit card info being more out there. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285085 |
@Monica see update to answer. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285085 |
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| Comment | Post #285076 |
I like the freezer idea. The inactive sites are a net negative when someone happens to stumble upon Codidact and looks around. You can't see how active a site is from the main Codidact page. If you start poking around in order the sites are shown, then you see three of the most dead ones first (Wr... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285085 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Tag edit major weirdness I just ran into something similar. I expect it's the same bug. That's why I'm adding it to this existing question instead of posting a new one. I'm a mod on the EE site. A user had created the superfluous tags "208VAC" and "230VAC", so I edited the post to delete them. I'm quite sure both tags... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285081 |
Asking about something quite niche, like ursack or lithophane without at least a simple sentence explaining them can be seen as arrogant (and thererfore rude) to casual visitors. Someone that doesn't know what these things are already will probably not answer the question, but they will also be alie... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285081 |
Charlie, you keep going on about this, but your idea of rudeness is apparently quite different from the norm. It seems you don't ever want to say anything negative about anyone. That's neither realistic nor useful. Some people do need to be told that what they are doing is wrong. And, a user simp... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285080 |
That might be a good idea, but a separate issue. I'm trying to address the problem of someone new coming accross a Codidact site and being turned off by seeing largely junk. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285080 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How to grow all of our communities? In addition to what Lundin said, we should do something Monica alluded to in her posts to each community. Some communities, particularly the less-active ones, have a high drivel ratio. This makes the place look like an unkempt trash heap to casual visitors. I suggest that unregistered users only... (more) |
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