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Posts by Moshi‭

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Q&A Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

git is a subtag of version-control, and so it's listed under it instead.

posted 6mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

It is worth noting that we don't need to have the thread be deleted. Threads on Codidact can be locked and archived. Archived threads are still available for viewing, but cannot be commented on[1] ...

posted 8mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How to resize images

Technically, you can do it by writing HTML manually: Code <img src="https://codidact.com/community-assets/meta/logo-large.png" alt="Codidact logo" width="100px"> <img src="https://cod...

posted 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How to avoid triggering mathjax?

The trigger in this case is surrounding text with either $latex$ or \(latex\) for inline math $$latex$$ or \[latex\] for "display math" (centered and on a new line) The MathJax parser is sma...

posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Flag details vs. comments

This is one of the things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now is known to be extremely confusing, with many people asking whether it raises a flag or not (it doesn't). Therefore, thi...

posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why is meta reputation linked to Q&A reputation?

This is something that is currently being discussed on each community. Communities are able to decide for themselves whether they want Meta to affect reputation. L&L announcement by Monica (co...

posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Tagging @username in a question/answer/comment

Comments You are only able to tag users that have interacted with the thread, and the author of the post itself. After typing @ plus the first 3 letters of the username, a popup should appear wher...

posted 10mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How does displaying users in the "users" tab work?

If you take a look at one of those users, you can see where they're all coming from. For instance This user was automatically created as the author of content sourced from Stack Exchange. The ...

posted 11mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Are downvotes needed?

The classic justification is of course that we need downvotes to flag bad posts, so that users can skip, filter or sort them to the last page, and moderators can prioritize them. Except we alread...

posted 11mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A "Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option

When you click on "Flag" under a post, you get a dropdown asking "Why does this post require moderator attention?" One of the options is needs author's attention This question is off-topic ...

2 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A A place to ask legal questions?

There is currently no general law community. However, domain specific questions might be able to be asked on their respective communities. (e.g. perhaps food safety regulations on Cooking) This how...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Long list of posts comes first in the user profile

Looking at the user profile on mobile, I noticed that what could be considered the user summary (the avatar, earned abilities, and statistics like number of posts) is all the way at the bottom of t...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories?

Show different text, either replacing the button or as different text on the button. We could put something like a lock icon . This would immediately signal to the user that this is something ...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should we have organization accounts?

I've seen many times something like "This is just my personal opinion, not of the team" when administrators such as Monica Cellio respond to posts. In my opinion, this is because of a lack of a way...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Preview text for answers should be the answer's text

When searching, not only questions but also answers come up in the results. However, the information on it is mixed between the question that the answer is on and the answer itself: Title: Que...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Creating new Discord channels

Technical questions Is it possible for Codidact Communities Discord users to create new channels? Currently there is a channel per community, but I was wondering if there is the option of creati...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Warnings and suspensions log should include suspended abilities

Not sure if this is an oversight or a bug, but suspending a privilege doesn't add a log to the "warnings and suspensions sent to user" moderator tool.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Newlines and formatting in user annotations

Another self-explanatory feature-request. Currently user-annotations are one-line and plain-text only, which is a little restrictive. I wanted to add a link to the comment that had prompted the not...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Make user-annotations editable

Basically the title. There's no edit button for annotations in the mod-tools, so if I make a mistake, there's no way to fix it. (I hit the enter key thinking it would insert a newline, but apparent...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Filter to show only positive posts

In the past and more recently, there's been an issue of many negatively received posts being posted, leading to the front page being primarily negative. This is, of course, rather bad for image. C...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should tag editing be separate from post editing?

Should tag editing be separate from post editing? By that I mean having a specific workflow to modify the tags of a question, different from the workflow to edit the content. Intuitively, I believe...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Archive to mark as "resolved", without locking the comment?

I've recently come across a situation where I thought archiving the comment thread was appropriate: A user suggested an improvement in the thread, and that improvement was then implemented (by me)....

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Users can suggest tags with spaces (but the suggestion can't be approved)

See this suggested edit, where the user suggested adding the tag "American English". Due to it having a space, I am unable to approve the edit, getting the message Tags may not include spaces or...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names?

(Reposting here for visibility) For the time being, there is a relatively simple workaround. It appears that Markdown isn't detected within HTML tags, so you can wrap the URL-like in a span or ot...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Search by category

This has been completed. From the help center, To filter by category, you will need to know the unique numeric id for that category. This can be found by looking at the url shown when you click ...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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