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Posts by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&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)[1]. The responsive...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&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 wh...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&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, starti...

posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A 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 p...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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 help...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 fair...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lux‭

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Q&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 re...

posted 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&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 ther...

posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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