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Posts by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Informing community users of new permissible features

Please, no. With modern technology, we all get way too many nagware messages as it is. Let's not have Codidact add to that. It's easy enough to visit meta occasionally. And, there is already a m...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What should happen with inactive communities?

What should be done in these cases? Should we just wait and let the site open? Should we train some monkeys to write questions? Should we "freeze" the site and provide the contents for download? Sh...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers?

Any text you didn't write yourself must be set off in a quote box and attributed. I believe this is already existing policy, and applies regardless of where the quoted text came from (like anoth...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description. User...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How to send message to mod other than by flag?

Is there a way to send a message to a moderator without raising a flag? If yes, please explain. If no, consider this a feature request. I tried to send a message to a mod about a question that g...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Markup documentation?

Where is the documentation for the markdown codes used on these pages? I'm trying to RTFM, but can't find the M. I did look in HELP, but it's not there. Below where I'm typing this, there is a b...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Future planning: what user preferences would be useful?

whether your votes are public or private by default I would probably use that, but it also shouldn't be a big deal to click the appropriate button at the time of voting. Maybe this is to make the ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Pending edit review should highlight changes

There is a pending edit on one of my posts. When I click on Review Changes, I get a page showing two versions of the post side by side. The problem is, there are no obvious changes. It's not even...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A New site setup process?

I proposed the new site Electrical Engineering, and I see that the basic framework has been created. Thanks. However, there is a difference between the basic mechanics of a site, and a fully up-a...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

Users should be able to say what they want in their profile. I think of that as personal space. About the only thing that should not be allowed is a direct insult to another member. As with anyt...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 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 agr...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&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 duplicat...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 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 t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Help pages display order?

Can the display order of help pages for a site be explicitly set somehow? I'm starting to create help pages for a new site, and would like to set the order they are shown in. For example, I'd like...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How to do superscript markup?

I wrote an answer where I needed to say "square meters". I wanted to write this as "m" followed by a superscript "2". I tried writing "m<sup>2</sup>". That worked in the preview, so ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Randomize order of answers with same score

Answers are shown in order according to their score derived from their votes. However, for answers with the same score, they seem to be shown in chronological order of creation time. This tends t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Request: Headings and footnotes act as link anchors

Using numbers as references to the Nth heading is a bad idea. When a heading gets added or deleted, all the links out there will be wrong. If this is going to happen at all, it makes more sense to...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What information should be displayed on a network profile?

I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit w...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Should be allowed to vote on answer to own question

I wrote a question on a site I hadn't been to before, and got an answer. I tried to upvote the answer, but was shown: I only have 1 rep (should start at 0, but that's another matter), so I can un...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Lux‭

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Q&A Is copying from other sites OK?

Copying posts here from elsewhere can be allowed, but the rules of the other site must be followed. Check the license that applies to the post on the other site. It probably requires attribution ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Let moderators grant abilities.

As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users. Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be co...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&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 bulle...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Need wording fix in dup close banner [duplicate]

The banner at the top of a question when the question is closed as a duplicate says in part "This question has been answered before" (example). That really should say "This question has been asked...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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 credib...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Details on creating a Help page?

I'm trying to create Help pages for a new site. One of the things I have to enter is "URL slug:". What is that exactly? I looked to see how help was organized on another site. For example, on t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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