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Activity for Derek Elkins
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A: Outline of what makes a high quality question Your question is unclearly written. I'm not sure what your "assertion about the importance of a 'mature understanding' being desirable" specifically refers to. My guess is the assertion "it is helpful for the^[Codidact is not a singular Q&A community, so using "the" here doesn't really make sense. Yo... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Should we render double hyphen as an em dash? No. If you want an em dash, you can use the HTML entity as you stated or just use the Unicode character. People who really want an em dash have figured out what they need to do to get it. People who use `--` for em dash are presumably used to and fine with it being rendered as "--". Everyone else, wh... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers? The short answer is "no" but also a little "yes". The ethos of Codidact is that the individual communities determine themselves what is and is not appropriate for their communities (with some fairly minimal network-wide policies). There may well be communities where ChatGPT produced content is wel... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: Downvoting Response Delays I haven't voted one way or the other on the linked question. My view is that (ideally) a vote (one way or another) should depend solely on the content of the question (or answer)^[There are some caveats to this, e.g. competition questions which are not fine during the competition but may be fine afte... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: I can do everything after account deletion also. You only have one Codidact account across all communities. As mentioned in the answers to your other question, it is not possible to delete an account for one community but not another because there is only one account. What happened, again, as mentioned in your other question, is that your account w... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! Suggestion Have an "Add Comment" button and a "Start New Thread" button with the former adding a comment to the "General Comments" thread, creating it if it doesn't yet exist. Right now, starting a new thread seems heavyweight if I don't expect much or any back-and-forth. For example, both ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Always display who asked a question in question lists Basically, I'd ideally want something like "asked 3 days ago by A, last activity 1 day ago by B". Having just the person without the question creation date would be significantly less useful but still better than the current situation. It is, frankly, weird that so much emphasis is placed on s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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User-configurable default sort order The default sort order, apparently everywhere, is by "activity". I virtually never want this and prefer to sort by "age" as I want to see which questions are new. The feature request is to add a preference (presumably on https://software.codidact.com/users/edit/profile where the keyboard shortcuts... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Multi-colored bookmarks I actually don't accept the premise here, or at least it's not obviously true to me. Specifically, I'm not sure there is that much of a benefit to implementing "bookmarking" at all. My immediate retort is that your browser (assuming it's any of the major ones) already implements bookmarking and has w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |