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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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| Edit | Post #283997 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Show more threaded comments after clicking the title of a threaded discussion I agree. Once I've said I want to see the thread, show me the thread. Systems that try to automatically do something clever inevitably end up being more trouble than they are worth. Showing me some of the comments, especially other than the first N, is going to be confusing. Just show them all.... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283928 |
Yes, the mechanics of closing is as you say. However, the act of closing has other purposes. It basically says <i>"This is crap"</i>. With the added messages of <i>"We will continue to publicly declare this as crap until you fix it"</i>, or <i>"Fix it or else"</i>, with the "or else" being the imp... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277432 |
It would help to know exactly what you mean by these "favicons", and how exactly you expect them to be used. Where would they show up? Who is supposed to see them? What are they supposed to tell people? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
Yes, to put it bluntly (since you asked), I downvoted your suggestion because you are asking for an unnecessary feature from the system because you got caught being sloppy. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
Yes, you have a history of posts that are annoying to read because of the bad English. Again, I realize this may not be your fault. However, that doesn't change the end result, which is ultimately all that matters.
This isn't the place for a detailed critique. If you want one, ask about it in t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283808 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: I suggest to better format the title ("summarize your post with a title") area There is nothing broken here, and nothing to fix or change. Anyone can make a typo, forget to finish the title, or delete a piece of it by accident. That wasn't the problem. The real problem was that you obviously didn't look over the post after submitting it. Even the most minimal proofreadi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
I was one of the downvoters. Yes, the blatantly broken title made me immediately dislike the post. It would have needed to be a stellar post to recover. It wasn't. It seemed to be largely a bunch of disorganized thoughts with it not obvious what the question actually was. This was not helped by ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279062 |
Your basic premise is flawed. Just because most of us have to deal a particular thing in our lives, doesn't mean we *need* a Codidact community for it. We all drink water and walk far more often than do accounting. By this logic, we "need" communities about water and walking. Clearly this is absu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283402 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Can't edit comment title. I wrote a comment and forgot to give it a title (It doesn't help that the title is entered below the comment, but that's another issue). The title shown is then just the start of the comment, which looks ugly. When I went to fix that, I couldn't find a way to edit the title, only the body of the co... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283026 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Electronic Gadgets: Revival as "Mobile Devices" What you describe is already on topic at Power Users. Since that site is not overwhelmed with questions about smart phones and tablets (what you actually appear to mean by "mobile devices"), there is no point at this time to create a separate site for this more narrow topic. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283013 |
What is SVG? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283024 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How important reference is? References give credibility to facts you present in a post. It is up to you as the post author how credible you want to make your facts, versus how much trouble you want to go thru for that credibility. There are various factors that effect the credibility of a statement in the minds of your read... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282947 |
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| Edit | Post #282947 |
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| Edit | Post #282947 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact? I'm not familiar with Reddit, and don't know what you mean by "submit links". However, it seems this other site has certain rules, and your question here is about how to circumvent them. You have no right to do that. Whether you think the rules are silly or not, it's their call to make. Think a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282571 |
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| Edit | Post #282571 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy? Response to homework dumps should be site-specific. On Electrical Engineering, we addressed this up front by explicitly mentioning homework in the Allowed Topics help file (See the very last bullet at the bottom of that page). So far we haven't had enough of a problem so that an official policy t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282502 |
It doesn't matter much what others are doing, and we don't want to chase around to 5 different web sites to get the spec of what you are proposing *here*. Describe your proposed site **here** in full. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
Since your one-line description of this proposed site is outward-facing, you should use the terms the general public will understand. It seems you intend this site to be for games you play on a computer, so "Computer Games" or some such makes more sense than "Video Games". To me, the latter is some... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
I'm not plugged into the computer gaming world, and I don't care what you ultimately do. However, as an outsider, saying the site is about "video" games is confusing. I could understand "computer games". At first I thought you meant only games that run on dedicated boxes that drive an existing TV,... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282367 |
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| Edit | Post #282367 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What does the logo of each Codidact site represent? Seriously!? Unlike Elsewhere, site logos on Codidact were chosen to be widely recognizable as belonging to the particular subject, even by people that aren't familiar with the subject. The logo, like the site name, is outward-facing. As such, it makes sense to choose them for good recognition by o... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282106 |
The place the avatar will be displayed must always be finite. Instead of making the system deal with arbitrary shapes, specify the aspect ratio the avatar will be displayed in. That way anyone can make any avatar they wish within that region, by using transparency. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281990 |
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| Edit | Post #281990 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| 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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281661 |
Abilities should and do take rep as part of their input. (more) |
— | almost 4 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 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281639 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
How do you avoid abuse by people being dishonest about an edit being minor? (more) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |