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Activity for Lorenzo Donati
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| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 But anyway, I'm not here to defend or object against SE network. I'm not in that ship any more and I'm not interested too much in that company shenanigans any longer.
In a way I pity those that still linger there, since I'm sure they will be sorely disappointed by the next trick SE compan... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 Sorry, I don't agree. Please, don't mix level of abstractions. If an application is made by hundreds of modules and libraries and you tag the version of each library (as it seems SO does, if I'm not mistaken), then the parallel in electronics is: you have a circuit and you tag every part numb... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 I didn't say SO, I said SE network. I mainly worked on EE.SE, and there tags sucks. It seems on SO there is more discipline. Anyway, I see there are a lot of very specific tags, like the specific version of dot-net framework. That is like using a tag for each part number we have in electronic... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 Oh, well. I didn't notice them. Maybe it is a relatively new feature? When I did janitorial work on SE network many years ago they didn't exist. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289438 |
I definitely support this approach. Especially since we on EE.CD almost reached a consensus that tags should not be treated as mere keywords, but they should be used to build a semantic structure (synonyms and parent tags are instrumental to that). To have a consistent development of our tag structur... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 On SE network tags are more a list of keyword that a way to convey semantic information correctly. On EE.CD we almost reached consensus that our tag systems should not be used as a keyword system, but more as a "semantic field" infrastructure. This is also supported by the existance of synony... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289410 |
I think that was only an example. Note that the feature is for adding flexibility to categories. I could imagine SW.CD community to want to add a required "programming language" tag _just for code reviews category_. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53398 Please, see my edit. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 BTW, Dictionaries may seem just a bunch of words listed together, but there is much research behind them (even old paper-based ones). You just don't improvise one.
Loooong time ago I worked for a research project whose purpose was to build an online learner's dictionary for learners of Ge... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 I'm not completely unaware of it (although it didn't occur to me while I was writing my question), but I never really used it (probably because when I got to know it existed some times ago it wasn't great).
I just checked now, and it seems sorely lacking, probably because it tries to be a ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 Thanks for the tip :-). I would definitely love to, if the opportunity arises. Now I'm busy working on revamping the tags structure on EE.CD (so little spare time -sigh- !). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#8046 Oh, yes, it was definitely a useful pointer. I didn't notice it at all when visiting that community (selective blindness, I guess :-).
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#8046 Thanks for the pointer! I "loitered" a bit on LL.CD but didn't notice that category.
And, yes, there is some similarity. However the important point in my larval-proposal is that "the information stays with us". No depending on rotting links and on formerly free external services that put u... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
@#53890 Oh, well, then we are essentially saying the same thing. That's why I suggested creating a new privilege for highly trusted users. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
@#53890 Sorry if I didn't make myself clear, I'm not against your undo proposal, I'm against the combination of undo with relaxed trust requirements. In other words, for me undo is OK just as a tool for privileged users to rollback editing mistake. The issue for me is the possible relaxation of requi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I agree with some of your points, but I think what you propose is "icing on the cake". IMHO we can't afford it now because CD has few developer resources and the traffic is low. We can effectively cope with tags using other methods.
The only point I disagree with is "trust more+undo". Even if we h... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
@#8046 No probs. Anyway the "small army of socks" is an amusing image :-) Now I have this mental movie of a bunch of minions (the film) with a sock on their heads, and wrenches and hammers in their hands busily doing things and running into each other in an overcrowded server room! :-D (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
Since you are scarce on dev resources, maybe it could be useful to see how my workaround plays out on EE.CD. Following what I suggested in my question, I created three "do-not-use" tags (`do-not-use--too-generic`, `do-not-use--too-specific`, `do-not-use--ambiguous`) and I began populating them with s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
`like the "new" button that is available to those with Edit Tags` I have that privilege but I still don't see that `new` button. Is that a intended (maybe because the privilege was granted by a mod and not earned in the standard way)? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense and I missed it wasn't a "legit" tag.
As for the rationale behind it, I don't see why `<small>` is forbidden. The workaround are clunky and what you propose really don't fit my bill, neither details nor footnotes give the effect I was looking for.
Th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
@#53890 That's a good point. Although I see Codidact more as a "spare time" tool (especially with this low traffic), I can see scenarios where it could be used in a workplace environment. So your concerns are definitely warranted.
Maybe the solution could be a sort of "privacy mode login", where y... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289313 |
A key problem with the current system is how to delete a tag. As I get it, for now that's an action that not even mods can do, but that needs "developer privilege". That's for DB safety and security.
If that was possible for mods or other privileged users, many problems would go away, since it wou... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 For example, say a user finds a questions about a buck converter. He gets curious and about the topic and clicks on the tag. This shows them other questions about buck converters, but the tag also refer to a parent `DC-DC-converter` tag. The user could follow it and learn about other types of... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 In reply to your comment where you begin with "I don't see anything in the EE meta post's specific guidelines ...". I wrote that post and I stated somewhere in it that I created and proposed those guidelines on the basis that tags shouldn't be a simple keyword list. It seems that a mod and Mo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 I agree with you about newbie questions. I wouldn't want to label them so. I think newbie should be educated to use the systems to their advantage and to the advantage of the community. A newbie could create a perfectly good question even on basic topics: for me the only hard requirement is t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
I'll add that I blocked cloudflareinsights.com because I read it can be used for tracking and although I feel safe here on codidact, I can't vouch for its use on other websites. I can't say if that could be the source of the problem. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
I have the same identical problem, also with Firefox and a lot of security add-ons. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Electrical Engineering. There are a bunch of other tags I'd like to delete. I suppose the only way is through staff, because Olin said he can't delete tags.
Moreover there are A LOT of tags that would need some change in capitalization or a change in spelling (maybe a word added), according to th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#61308 The problem is the purpose of tags. As I wrote in a [post on EE.CO](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289204), tags should convey structure, i.e. they should allow a user to discover questions about the same (or at least similar) topic. Tags should not be some sort of keyword list. When y... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Just eyballing the ~5 pages of tags, it seems that there could be no more than 50. I don't count tags that are obvious typos or jokes or trolling (OK, I could get that `cock` could have been a misspelled `clock`, but `shit` has no excuse).
BTW, to avoid problems with the system limitations, we cou... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289269 |
@#36396 #2 allows many small edits in a short period of time to be coalesced in just one bump, instead of many bumps. This may not seem a big thing now that the traffic is low, but once the traffic increase it could be quite disrupting. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289270 |
Thanks for the pointer! (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289223 |
Yep, that's a bit annoying. Thanks for noticing that. Just yesterday I was going to write a "bug report" about it, but I was carried away IRL and forgot to do it.
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289240 |
Thanks! :-D ;-) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289240 |
Oh, well, it would have been nice to set the color of the text, but I agree it could be prone to abuse. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289240 |
I entered this `[section style="color:red; font-size:80pt"]
Big Honking Title![/section]` (I had to change angular brackets in square ones otherwise the code didn't show in the comment) in a question edit form and the preview nicely complied :-)
IDK if the attribute would have been rejected when ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289240 |
I tried and noticed also the `style` attribute is allowed (e.g. on a section tag). Is this intentional? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Yes, keeping tracks of flags on the post page is very useful, especially if the traffic begins hopefully to rise.
I see some merit to being able to flag a post multiple time. Maybe you didn't notice something the first time and need to raise another flag. Editing the previous one could be misleadi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
@#8046 This problem also bothered me recently, and I was about to post a request, too. I don't know how the toggle works on Github. I'm not keen on side by side auto view. Sticky option seems best of the threee.
I'd suggest another one, which I don't know if it is feasible (don't know much of mode... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289222 |
Thanks for the explanation. I'll refrain to enter HTML entities in guidance text in the future.
As for what the guidance text is for, well in EE Codidact tags are often descriptive of a specific thing (e.g. a device, a circuit, a component, a parameter), not a general concept (yes, we have someth... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289214 |
My point was that there is a counter and it isn't working. If we decide it is not needed, it should just be removed from the UI and avoid useless clutter. I have no strong opinion about that.
I could see a potential merit in that limit, though. Since the guidance text goes in a pop-up maybe there... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289206 |
@#8046 I don't think everybody should have the ability to have this level of access to mods. It would be too prone to abuse. I think a new privilege is warranted. However, I see some merit to enable some sort of "mod pinging" for every user. I can't say, however, how you could enforce stricter limits... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289206 |
@#8046 Well, if that's a sort of semi-permanent two-way comm channel between a user and a mod, that's fine. I was worried the mechanism was just a sort of "flag message".
Clustering may not be so important if the messages can be given a sticky title: the title remains in effect until changed, so ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289206 |
@#8046 Please, consider changing the one-limit "ping" according to user privileges (maybe making a new privilege based on some other privileges and reps). High rep/privilege users that do janitorial work may have the need to ping mods more often, especially until some more tools for maintaining the s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289122 |
@#8046 Hi! News about this issue? I still can't see the `new` button. Moreover I'd like to be able to change the case of some tags and possibly delete some tags, sometimes for being too general or not useful, and sometimes because of typos. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
I have neither one, just an edit button. I mentioned the merge trick before I had a chance to use it. I gave it for granted that having the ability of editing tags implied also the ability to merge them, but I didn't actually check the UI. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289122 |
Nope, I don't see that `new` button at all. The search field is just below the title in my UI. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289119 |
@#36396 Strangely enough, with the `–` the problem goes away! Maybe there is a restrict range of HTML entities that are supported in that context. It seems strange, anyway. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289115 |
OK, good to know. I'll abstain from that trick. Anyway I just read of that trick and I didn't actually find a way to do it. Maybe it is something that can be done only with abilities I didn't earn yet? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289119 |
@#36396 Mmm, this is maybe Country specific. I have seen many times that symbol used as a range indicator. I agree that an – could be used too. (...* going to check *...) Indeed I found that [the usage is Country specific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_sign), and it is common here in Italy f... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |