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Comment Post #290068 > the user is not transparently informed about how a site policy is being applied to them. Is that part of the idea you had in mind? It is. The idea is to use automated processes to extend the probationary period based on triggers that we don't reveal to non-moderators. (Revealing the triggers ...
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9 months ago
Comment Post #290080 > some users with much more power over others. This is inevitable as long as the server operators are also users.
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9 months ago
Comment Post #290315 Post flag is different from inbox, search, react, and comment flag (I don't know about close) in that post flag expands in the flow of the page and can *only* be closed via toggling, whereas the others produce floating dialogs and can also be closed by clicking anywhere else outside the dialog.
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11 months ago
Edit Post #290315 Initial revision 11 months ago
Answer A: How do I close the flag dialog?
Click Flag again.
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11 months ago
Comment Post #290296 The idea being discussed here is not shadowbans as a punishment for doing something wrong, but shadowbans as a tool for catching abuse of new accounts. There's no point in telling every new user ‘you're banned for an hour’ when they submit their first post. In the nothing's-wrong case, the shadowban ...
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11 months ago
Comment Post #290080 [Stop The Awful Trolls](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/114), of course.
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #290085 I'm not proposing anything that would involve rules-lawyering. This whole proposal is very much in line with the idea that we should let new accounts show us (moderators) their true colors and then (again, moderators) eject them. My understanding is that there is already IP-based filtering in plac...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #290122 > Human users, however, will inevitably notice when they don't get any answers or comments or votes - ever The idea is that the shadowban period is temporary, one way or another. Either the account is visibly banned by a moderator, or it is released from the shadowban either by a moderator or auto...
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #290080 There's an important difference between [shadowbanning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning) and rate-limiting: a shadow ban doesn't stop innocent users from using the site normally. There would just be a delay before their posts are visible to the rest of the community, during which moderat...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #290068 If you have concrete criticisms and would care to share them, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. IME, broad discussions rarely lead to action whereas concrete proposals sometimes do, but kick off that discussion in parallel if you want.
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #290068 Post edited:
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #290068 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question Probationary shadowban for new accounts
I'd like for communities to be able to opt in to a feature that shadowbans new accounts for a brief period of time. Moderators should be able to release accounts from the shadowban manually; they should also be released from the shadowban after the time period expires. The initial duration can be ...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289993 They might not assume that only Python is on topic, but I think they would assume that the community is made of people who focus on Python. This happens all the time in the real world. You go to join A/V club because you're very interested in film soundtracks, but everyone there is focused on prod...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #289993 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact?
I think of clutter primarily in terms of how it impacts community norms. If your programming language Q&A site has an about page that says, ‘We welcome questions about all programming languages,’ but out of the last 100 questions, 97 of them were about SQL, you have a de facto SQL Q&A site. For a ...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289971 > even fishermen buy salmon at the supermarket sometimes And that's fine! You go to the supermarket to buy fish. You go to the fishing dojo to learn to fish. You *don't* go to the fishing dojo to ask for fish, because that's not what the fishing dojo is for, and the people who go to the fishing do...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #289971 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself?
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Then tomorrow, he'll ask for another fish. And you give it to him then too, so he comes back the next day. And the next. And at some point it's no longer fun for you to give him fish, so you don't, but someone else does. And other people see that this is wh...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289745 https://math.codidact.com/users/65941
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289745 https://math.codidact.com/users/65672
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #289746 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: How should we approach non-English content?
I think there's nothing wrong with a community deciding to be multilingual or non-English monolingual, but given the impacts on moderation requirements, site technology, usage patterns, etc., I think an initial choice should ideally be established at the formation stage. Community Proposals should...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #289569 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Users with multiple Codidact accounts
Just some thoughts, not anything like an official answer or even a coherent policy proposal: I find the idea of using different names in different communities completely innocuous. Privacy is cool. Using multiple accounts to vote on each other's questions, answers, site proposals, etc. is fraud...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #286483 The author of the post should edit their post and include anything worth including. Comments aren't for other people to leave information for third parties; they're for other people to communicate with the author of the post so that the author of the post can *improve their own post*. If you, a visit...
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over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286483 Q&A sites aren't forums with different CSS. If you want to see conversations, visit a forum. If you want to see questions and answers and *only* that, visit Q&A sites. If you treasure the content that ends up in comments, either that content actually belongs in a question or an answer, or you are in ...
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #286483 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Why are comments hidden by default?
I believe that comments encourage users to think of this site like a forum or Reddit or some other form of social media. But posts that would be appropriate in those places aren't appropriate here. I assert that de-emphasizing comments helps focus users on the idea that we should all be here to do wo...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286425 Uh, so this seems like a massive overreaction to me, given, again, that [user who would prefer not to be named?] is not mentioned in the image and there are no links to their post—the benefit of providing a clear image of the issue seems to heavily outweigh whatever negative impact is caused by this ...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286425 I don't understand this comment. If you want me to delete the image, I don't know why. If you want me to replace the image with text, the image already has alt-text for browsers that don't display images, and seeing the bug in context is more useful for the devs than a text description. Your name doe...
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over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #286425 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Question Comment notifications should render mentioned users' names
I received a notification for a comment that includes an @-mention of myself, but instead of rendering my username, it looks like this: New comment thread on What is Backus–Naur form as applied in computer programming?: @#53410 please read the following thread and say there if you agree with elgon...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284515 Something in Canina's proposal I quite like is that the limiting factor is determined by the amount of posting done by other users, and not some fixed rate. Even three low-quality posts a day would be more than enough for bad posts to crowd out the good in some (most?) of our communities at present, ...
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about 3 years ago
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284513 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content
This is a proposal for a refinement of Canina's proposal, or any proposal substantially like it, in response to one of celtschk's objections in the comments. Canina assumed, and I agree, that the software should execute an algorithm when a post is submitted, using as input any of the data availabl...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284473 Right on, I'll write up an answer shortly. I wanted first to determine if I understood @celtschk's objection well enough to offer an acceptable compromise.
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284473 I think this is more like preventing double spending than presuming maliciousness, but we all see things our own way. Anyway, what if the throttling only takes effect after the first post which would be subject to throttling? Basically, give each user a bit, and if the bit is unset, allow the post...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284473 @#8056, why is it critical to you that the current state of the world not be taken into account when the post is submitted? Wouldn't that leave this scheme wide open to, say, opening ten browser tabs for ten questions and copy-pasting pre-composed questions in quick succession? Why would the addition...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284472 Sadly I don't have a specific proposal to offer but I do want to say that almost any method I could imagine of addressing this problem would be better than the status quo, IMO. Among the communities I'm watching, the Mathematics community in particular has been utterly overwhelmed by a flood of low-q...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #282764 I'd be fascinated by a community for ‘Firearms that never materialized’! Oh, wait...
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #281311 Post edited:
over 3 years ago
Edit Post #281575 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts
I initially was lukewarm about this proposal but now I think I like it, at least in the broad strokes. In particular, I prefer the idea of a separate place where work-needed questions are temporarily held—I'll call it the Workshop—with its own comments, over an optionally-private comment thread. T...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281546 ‘unanimously close’ Did you maybe mean ‘unilaterally close’, or is your proposal actually that all TUs/mods need to agree to close/quarantine/draftify the question?
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over 3 years ago