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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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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 | — | over 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 | — | over 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 | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| 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 |
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| Edit | Post #285080 | Initial revision | — | over 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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| Comment | Post #284937 |
I logged out and could see the deleted answer also. It did have the red background, and it did say "deleted", but I could still clearly see it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284524 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Reacting without signing in error Even better, don't show the vote triangles or the "react" link if you're not logged in. Then there is no issue of an error message. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284523 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Require title for comment thread The title of a comment thread currently defaults to the start of the comment text. That has lead to a lot of partial-sentence comments visible below a post without comments expanded. Those look messy and are annoying, since you often can't tell at a glance what the comment is about. These titles ca... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284482 |
Whenever you bump into the comment length limit, you should be seriously asking yourself whether what you are writing should really be a comment. Most likely it shouldn't. Or, you need to learn to be more to the point. Comments are not for content. Pointing out an issue to an author shouldn't tak... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284491 |
Maybe for some people, they dump out a message, then go back and think what a summary of that message is. That's not how I think of writing a message, and from comments here, a decent number of others don't write like that either. I know what I want to say, else I wouldn't click on "start new comme... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284473 |
I can get behind the general idea, but I think the details need some tweaking. Votes on any one single post aren't that meaninful as a measure of the user overall. Put another way, there is some noise on individual readings. We want to know the recent trend, not over-react to one-off blips. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284435 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker Some questions are closely related, and therefore are better combined in a single question post. Answering such individual questions separately would be more trouble, would likely require duplicate work, and possibly cross-references to the other related questions or their answers. It is the ques... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284433 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others. Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make suggestions to authors about improving posts, but the authors ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282433 |
-1 for the poorly written post. I'm not necessarily for or against such a Codidact site (if it can be sustained, I'm fine with it), but am solidly against post missing critical content here. You are using a single link to define the site you want. Not gonna follow a link, just downvote instead. E... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282764 |
The Outdoors site would take questions on the use and maintenance of weapons for hunting. Military use and history would be off topic. I'm not saying this is a good proposal, but only some of what seems to be proposed here would apply to the Outdoors site. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282764 |
What's a "r/warcollege" and "r/credibledefense"? We shouldn't have to go hunting for descriptions. Key descriptions belong right here in your question. Put another way, posts here must be self-contained, at least for the key points. You have essentially written a link-only question. It should be... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284371 |
+1 just for the first bullet! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284331 |
+1. Nannyware is annoying, no matter how well intentioned. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284143 |
This is somewhat of an aside, but 2 Mb is absurdly large to allow for a profile picture. It seems that the largest this picture is ever displayed at is 240 x 240 pixels on your profile page. Even completely uncompressed and 3 bytes/pixel, that only comes out to 0.17 Mb. There may be some point in ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284047 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names? I agree. This is a great example of over-reaching with trying to be "helpful" automatically. Only links explicitly declared so by the author should be shown as links. The site otherwise has no business guessing author intent. If a post author forgets or otherwise doesn't properly declare a link... (more) |
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