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Activity for Lorenzo Donati
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How can we poll a community? In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd like to know in general if there is a standard practice to poll the community. In other words, sup... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags? During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in the hierarchy. This is useful for a curator to see if some concept you have in mind already has a ta... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages. I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here on Meta because it could be useful for other communities, especially those focused on science and tec... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Proposal to ease tag maintenance Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege. Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding the ability to create new tags) and create a more "powerful" privilege, e.g. "manage tags", that would ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview? Sometimes I use the `` HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasis mine): >text as it appears in post preview However I noticed that in the actual post presentation t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A way to prohibit creating certain tags. On EE.CO we have some tags that are utterly useless, but people keep on using them, for example `voltage`. For non-experts: voltage is one of the main physical quantity used to describe the behavior of any circuit or electrical system. Such tags become kitchen sinks used to tag questions of all... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Can we have different favicons for the different communities? I usually work with dozens of open tabs in my browser and even when using Codidact I have several tabs open pointing maybe at different posts on different communities and/or meta. Having different icons for different communities in the tabs of my browser would greatly speed-up my workflow, because... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts? I like the idea, and I was going to suggest it myself. However, I also understand the concerns of @trichoplax about the risk of abuse, e.g. "sneaky edits" that could fly under the radar. I think a nice tradeoff solution would be IMO: 1. Allow minor edit checkbox only for people that have t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Can we have a preview pane for comments? I just had to reply to a staff member in a comment about some potentially "illegal" HTML code that can be entered in a post. I had to edit the comment about a dozen times because the code I entered didn't show up as intended when my comment was posted. This is extremely annoying and time wastin... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Can we have a "show post source" button? Often I see a post which uses a formatting that I'd like to learn or to directly "steal". To see how it is done I'm forced to click the `edit` button, which is prone to mistakes and really doesn't seem "right" to my programmer's OCD POV. This is something that has bothered my greatly also Somewher... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance. There is a problem with HTML entities in the tag guidance text. As you can see here I used an HTML entity (greek lowercase phi φ) to denote a technical quantity, and it shows nicely: tag guidance snapshot However in the hover text in tagged questions it appears not rendered, i.e. as `&... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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When editing tags usage guidance character limit counter doesn't work. When I edit tags on EE.Codidact I've noticed that the character limit counter for the usage guidance remains at zero. Is it a known issue? Unless there is something wrong with my browser (Firefox) it is a bug. Note that the similar counter for comments works OK for me. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs. I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD here. I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as the corresponding entity, whereas during editing, in the tag WIKI preview pane, it showed up corre... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Adding a dummy tag to improve the process of nuking tags with the "merge trick". Would it be acceptable to create a dummy tag like `merge-into-this-for-nuking-another-tag` just to ease the usage of the "merge trick" described here to nuke a tag? Of course the usage would spell it out loudly to not to use the tag for tagging a question, and would explain the merge trick. T... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question? As the title says. Rationale: I'm in the process of giving tags on EE.CD some structure and I feel that sometimes a group of tags could be usefully grouped under a parent which doesn't exist yet. This would force me to add a spurious, more general tag, to an already posted question and then use... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Please, don't kill Olin Elthrop! I just found this user Olin Elthrop and read the profile description. I felt like I had to report it, since it may be considered trolling or insulting against another user Olin Lathrop (a high-rep user and a mod on EECo). But, really, it's such a beautifully crafted piece of ironic writing (an... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why is there a rep system in Codidact? I largely agree with the answer of Olin Lathrop, but I'd like to put things in a slightly different perspective. We need a rep system, even if it is not ideal, especially on technical/scientific sites. Why? Because Internet is what it is and no one is forced to reveal its true identity. Reputa... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |