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Posts by Olin Lathrop
The presentation you show is not optimized for what people should be coming to Help for. The help topics are also in a rather arbitrary hierarchy, and not showing the relative importance or order ...
Here is a mechanism that addresses some of the problems: Each proposed new site is a full site in the structural sense. It has all the proposed categories, including meta. These sites would be i...
In addition to what Mithical said (+1), if we do ever get a direct message system, it must be opt-out by default. In other words, it must take a deliberate action by a user before they can receive...
A solution to one of the issues you mention is to ditch the annoying nanny-ware and not require a minimum number of characters in the first place. Sometimes the meaning can be quite clear in a wor...
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, whic...
Capitalization is part of spelling. Tags should be allowed to be spelled correctly. Forcing all lower case not only looks stupid, but may lead to confusion. For example, "microchip" is quite diff...
If you want to evolve multiple questions from a long writeup, do it outside the site. There is nothing preventing you from writing as much text as you want as fast as you want into a file on your ...
Not allowing fluff was the norm Elsewhere, and I consider it the norm here unless explicitly stated to the contrary. I am not aware of a community here that has stated they like content-free greet...
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? Th...
When I'm busy reading or writing an answer: I want as much of the window pixels devoted to the task at hand as possible. Don't want to be interrupted by notifications. Modern computers are alr...
I know this is not a popular stance, but I agree with you. I have seen first hand the problems caused by anonymous voting on SE, especially anonymous downvotes. Whenever there is a way to do any h...
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 meas...
Is codidact community as same as stack overflow ? No. Perhaps we are not doing enough to explain this, but that really should have been obvious in my opinion. Codidact is an organization that ha...
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 me...
Even though this was "completed" 4 months ago, I don't see anything called "dashboard" when viewing this question, or even in my profile. And yes, I scrolled all the way to the bottom.
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 bot...
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...
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.
Please make sure that such a feature is optional, and not the default when you create your account. Personally I find such extra security a pain in the butt and annoying. This isn't Fort Knox or ...
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 th...
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 i...
If you create such a feature, at least make it optional per site with the default off. I would be strongly opposed to any direct import from anywhere else to the Electrical Engineering site, for e...
Should I just let loose and post every question I can't find an answer for? Absolutely not! You first need to understand the specific rules and norms of whatever site you want to ask on. Codidact i...
I can't post images in answers on the Outdoors site, like for example here. When I click on the image button, nothing happens, or a little text pops up above the button too quickly to read. Howev...
I'm therefore proposing that we use this same scoring system to 'score' each individual requirement in the Trust Levels: (accepts + N) / (accepts + rejects + 2N), for N=2. This is good enough for a...
