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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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| Comment | Post #282026 |
*If I'm looking to answer some questions why do I have to hunt them down?* Because it's not implemented. That really should have been obvious. Probably nobody thought of it, or it hasn't bubbled to the top of priority list yet. This is a reasonable feature request, but asking "why", especially wh... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281990 |
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| Edit | Post #281990 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Battery Science & Engineering Much of what you describe is already on topic on Electrical Engineering. That certainly includes any use of batteries and battery management systems. Some of the inner workings are on topic too, since you can't use batteries effectively without at least some understanding of how they work. The d... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281717 |
I can see these new communities when clicking on the links above, but otherwise they seem impossible to find. Clicking on "Codidact Network" at right only shows the previously existing communities. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281661 |
For a time, old posts were being bumped with no-change edits on our Outdoors site. That was bad. Even worse, it was being done by a mod. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281661 |
Abilities should and do take rep as part of their input. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278908 |
I agree with most of what you said, except that web applications are off topic. For many users, there is little distinction between a web application and a local one. Lots of stuff (like Codidact) run some parts locally, others on the server. From the user's point of view, none of that is relevant... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281639 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? While it would be nice for minor edits to not bump posts, the problem is defining what "minor" is, and leaving it for the person who did the edit to judge. Hopefully, most people won't be subjected to the edit queue eventually, so that's not the answer. I certainly want to know about all edit any... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281636 |
I didn't downvote, but your post is hard to read in places, to the point where it's confusing what you are trying to say. Perhaps the -1 was for the bad English. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
What I meant is how do you get around the case where someone makes a major or malicious edit, then tries to hide that by claiming it was minor? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
How do you avoid abuse by people being dishonest about an edit being minor? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281602 |
It's a bit unclear what you are asking or stating. Note that both paragraphs are single run-on sentences. A few sentence breaks to distinguish thoughts would help clarity, and make your post less annoying to read. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281592 |
I agree. As a moderator one one of our sites, I know who has participated and can be trusted with Curate and other privileges. I'd be happy to give them out when deemed appropriate if there was a mechanism to do that. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
Another reason for all feedback to be public is that it helps all see what the norms are. As someone giving feedback, I want to write once *"show a diagram"* and have that cause others to include a diagram in the first place. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
When someone posts a bad question, getting piled upon is well deserved, and is likely to achieve the desired result (shape up or ship out). (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
When I comment on a post I want everyone to see it. Also as a post author, I don't want a bunch of duplicate comments just because each commenter couldn't see what others have already written. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281512 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Let's revamp our status tags The "status-" part provides context that can be useful for people not intimately familiar with the site. The upside of getting rid of "status-" is very minimal. Extra clarity is usually a good thing, and worth keeping in this case. For example, suppose someone asked about why a tag was declined ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281472 |
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| Edit | Post #281472 |
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| Edit | Post #281472 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Currently, where should we ask any OS related question? Codidact currently has no place to ask OS-related questions, unless they are niches that happen to fit into one of the existing sites. Yes! I know that, that's why I am asking the question. Then I fail to see the point of asking for suggestions where to ask such questions ("suggest to ask quest... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281463 |
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| Edit | Post #281463 |
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| Edit | Post #281463 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only Bad idea. Quoting parts of a question in an answer is useful because: It makes it clear what exactly is being replied to. It protects the answerer from changes to the question. The quotes can act somewhat as headings in the answer. It is easier to find a particular part of an answer that... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281377 |
Post edited: There is no "o" in "reputation". |
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| Comment | Post #281449 |
@Monica: I looked around on the EE site (where I'm a moderator) but couldn't find any of these settings. I looked in "moderator tools", and also on the page of individual abilities, like "curate". I agree with Lundin that 196 flags is excessive. I'd also be willing to explicitly grant certain abil... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281377 |
Suggested edit: There is no "o" in "reputation". (more) |
helpful | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281435 |
Um, OK, so what's your question? I don't even see a particular point, other than "Hi, I'm here". What is the purpose of this question? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
@Monica: If you screw up on a question somewhat outside your domain, others will downvote it fast enough. You can also start with "This isn't my area of expertise, but ...". People seem to be more forgiving of errors that way too. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281383 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why is there a rep system in Codidact? Actually Codidact should support rep better than it does now. Most of the dislike of rep seems to come from a misunderstanding of its purpose. It's not to show who is "better" somehow, but a measure of how much someone has contributed useful content to the site as judged by all the other users. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281298 |
These questions seem borderline at best in their current form. This is because they are more about credit card or money user issues than chemistry. It would be better if you asked about the materials the money and credit cards are made of, how inert that material is to isopropyl alcohol, and perhap... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281275 |
Comments are not for content. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281227 |
One unfortunate side effect is that imported content won't be as obvious, and therefore less likely to get fixed. This stuff is damaging all sites, and particularly the ones with the imported content. There seems to be too much inertia to do something about it already. Defaulting the icons to off ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281080 |
I often use two browser tabs for this reason. I agree it would be nice to not have to do that. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281072 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Inconsistant picture sizes in users list I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I think the large ones being at right was just a coincidence. In any case, there seems to be a bug som... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281013 |
Too many links, too little content *here*, -1. The description of what you are proposing should be self-contained in the question here. Nobody should have to follow links to get pertinent information to the proposal. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280968 |
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| Edit | Post #280968 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why not broaden Electrical Engineering to Engineering? You have touched on two different topics, neither of which belong here. Scope of the Electrical Engineering site As Monica has already explained, this is up to the users of the site. The right place to discuss that is in the Meta category of the EE site. Having a general Engineering site ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280784 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add 'close this help' to Codidact keyboard shortcuts list Esc is the usual and obvious way to dismiss a popup like this. Esc for this function is so common and nearly universal that listing it would only add clutter, and not provide any useful information to the vast majority of users. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280709 |
The OP asked about transferring his "questions and answers". It's not clear to me that he didn't implicitly include all answers to a question with "question", or that he wasn't considering dragging someone else's question along when copying his answer. There are some serious drawbacks to copying co... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280711 |
@10Rep *"Would it be fine if I copied the question as well?"* No, not if you mean simply copying and pasting it. There is more to it than that. If you did that on EE, for example, I'd delete the whole thing as soon as I saw it. Other sites may have different policies. Overall it's not quite as s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |