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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 ... (more) |
— | 10 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. (more) |
— | 10 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. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290315 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How do I close the flag dialog? Click Flag again. (more) |
— | about 1 year 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 ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290080 |
[Stop The Awful Trolls](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/114), of course. (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290068 |
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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... (more) |
— | 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. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290068 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290068 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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 ... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289993 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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 ... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289971 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289745 |
https://math.codidact.com/users/65941 (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289745 |
https://math.codidact.com/users/65672 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289746 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289569 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286483 |
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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 ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286483 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 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 ... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286425 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286425 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 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, ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284513 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284513 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 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. (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | 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... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282764 |
I'd be fascinated by a community for ‘Firearms that never materialized’!
Oh, wait... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281311 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281575 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 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? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |