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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280784 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280709 |
This answer gives too much of the impression that it is OK to import anything you want. That is definitely NOT true. There are tradeoffs, downsides, and other considerations that anyone thinking of importing content must be aware of. The answer is NOT and unqualified "absolutely". Please don't gi... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280720 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Transferring my questions and answers from StackOverflow and other SE sites It is always fine to bring over your own content. After all, it's yours. However, some sites here will not appreciate you bringing over anyone else's content. That would require us to show attribution, which results in links to elsewhere that we don't want. For example, on the EE site, we don't... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280610 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280632 |
*"If you're quoting a long text that already uses bolds and italics, then all formatting tools have been exhausted"*. You are forgetting about *blockquote*. That sets quoted text apart visually regardless of font, size, boldness, or color. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280610 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Where can I ask about fixing a Fairphone 3? There is currently no Codidact site where that question would be on topic. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280517 |
@Monica: I didn't notice until now that the question is 3 months old. When you folks fix something, it would be worth adding and answer, even if all it says it "Fixed". Tags are easy to not notice. I guess it was the addition of the tag that got this post bumped so that I noticed it. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280517 |
The above looks as expected. The example above therefore does not reproduce the bug. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280517 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Numbering Display Bug This is a test with known input. First entry in ordered list. Second ordered list entry. First entry in subordinate list under point 2. Second unordered list entry. Third entry in outer ordered list. Outer list entry 4. First entry in second ordered li... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278500 |
If it's a single list, then how did the unordered list get in there without additional indentation? Something isn't adding up. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278500 |
You should explain whether this is one list or multiple lists. It seems to me that each list should start at 1 separately. In other words, the right side looks correct, not the left side. I base this on an unordered list apparently inserted between two ordered lists. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280399 |
@user: The point is to not provide content elsewhere so that askers have to come here to get it. Also continuing to provide content elsewhere only helps those other places get high search results. We need good content here to attract more good content here. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280482 |
@10 Rep: You may dislike reputation, but it has its uses. I don't think it needs to be bigger, but I certainly wouldn't want it smaller either. I think the stuff below the rep line is mostly clutter, though. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280472 |
These might be interesting statistics to track per site, but I don't think they would have much bearing on whether people ask questions here. The barrier is in people finding out about the site in the first place. If they can see the statistics, they are already here and know about the site. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280465 |
Just like on SE, the sites are what users proposed and gave some indication they will support. Nobody sat down and decided to have a particular set of sites. If you want something that's not here, propose it. Be prepared to do the work to define the site, get others on board, eventually write the ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280464 |
What Zerotime said. These need to be separate so we can vote on and discuss them separately. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280419 |
Of course the whole concept of rep on a meta site doesn't make much sense in the first place. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280407 |
It sounds like you want indexed documentation, not a FAQ. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Monica: See addition to the question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280399 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? That's the wrong question. We aren't unfriendly to askers. The real question is: What can we do to encourage people to ask questions here? There are two necessary conditions to have a site that gets a good volume of questions: Good answ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280379 |
Please take some measurements before and after so that we can all learn from Writing's experiment. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Judaism seems to have gotten started well. Are you getting new people from elsewhere regularly, or is it that there is enough interest already among the Codidact folks? It helps that it's more of a community discussion among peers (at least that's my impression) than strict Q&A. It's not a bunch o... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
Despite all the above, the EE site is growing more slowly than I had hoped. Achieving critical mass is *hard*. This is why there should be a plan for it before a site is launched. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
I did some deliberate outreach. I personally contacted a number of people I knew, told them about the new site, and asked them to spread the word. I put a prominent link to the new site on my SE profile. (I'm a bit dismayed that some of the other founders didn't do the same, and kept answering qu... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
@celtschk: I didn't put quotes around the title. If the search string is so specific that it only matches the one question title on the whole internet, then the test isn't very useful. Still, it might be something to try. I've noticed that search engines don't actually seem to take quotes that ser... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: See update to the question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280377 |
It seems you are really looking for a platform for publishing rants, not for asking questions. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280375 |
A problem we haven't solved yet is launching new communities with a plan that gives them a reasonable chance of success. Most people discussing a new community here will be the answerers, not the askers. Since we can't expect many of the askers to be here, there should be a plan to attract them. R... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
@celtschk: As I said in a previous comment, deleting the untouched stuff would be a good first start, then see where that gets us. The evidence of spillover is from the test I did. I copied the title of the question exactly into the search bar. Still, Google showed two results with looser matches ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: It would be interesting to try the first two experiments on the Judaism site to see how much limited imports effect things. Someone that knows the topic should do that so that they can pick generic questions with lots of stuff already out there on the web. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280356 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@Mith: What sites did selective imports? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280084 |
Post edited: Fixed title, removed irrelevant (and therefore consfusing) comments, and questions about other site. |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
There have to be some over-arching rules for any site in the codidact.com domain. How many users are effected Codidact-wide, versus how many are on sites with imported content, and that actually want to keep that content? At some point there is a threshold where something needs to be done to protec... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
I suspect that you're right and the number of imported questions with local answers is small. Keeping those probably (hopefully?) won't hurt us much with the search engines. We could delete all but those, then see what that does to search results a month later, if the sites really want to keep thos... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
It is a global Codidact issue because apparently imported content in one site effects all the others. We should work with the effected communities as best as possible, but deleting imported content is for the health of Codidact overall. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280358 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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We should delete all old imported content. Early for the Codidact sites, it seemed like importing content from SE might be a good way to get a new site going quickly. Now with the clarity of hindsight, we can see that this didn't work. The few sites that did mass-import content are doing very poorly. As far as I can tell, these are Writing... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |