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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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290080 |
[Stop The Awful Trolls](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/114), of course. (more) |
— | 6 months 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) |
— | 6 months 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) |
— | 6 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289745 |
https://math.codidact.com/users/65941 (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289745 |
https://math.codidact.com/users/65672 (more) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | almost 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) |
— | almost 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) |
— | almost 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) |
— | almost 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282764 |
I'd be fascinated by a community for ‘Firearms that never materialized’!
Oh, wait... (more) |
— | almost 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281554 |
Can you clarify what ‘regular’ comments are for, in this vision? What's left that isn't a separate answer, isn't a proposed edit, and isn't feedback? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281473 |
Sure, you can define a ‘power user’ set that includes Windows power users and Linux enthusiasts, but what would those two subsets have to say to each other? Why *would* they overlap? People who do have expertise in both Windows and Linux can be members of both communities, but I think the majority of... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281473 |
There's no point in joining two undersized communities together just to get a whole one if their members don't naturally overlap. Do you have relevant interest/expertise in all of these categories? Do other people? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281469 |
Codidact's model in general seems to be that individual communities are islands in an ocean of possible questions. There's no goal to pave the entire ocean; if you have a question that isn't on one of the existing islands, your options are to try to get an island to form beneath it, convince an exist... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281311 |
@interested, how is your grievance related to this post? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280158 |
Sooo... I'm reasonably sure that at least *four* of the accounts on this list are the same person. I'm seeing this happen on a few other site proposals as well. I don't see a specific anti-sock-puppet policy for Codidact but surely multiple-voting on site proposals is not behavior we want to tolerate... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280901 |
@Lundin, I have added some text that I hope clarifies. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279798 |
I think this isn't fully fixed. See the ‘Cutting the square’ question in https://math.codidact.com/categories/41/tags/3949; according to the summary view, it has 1 answer, but if you click through there are 0. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279874 |
I downvoted, but it would become an upvote if the community contained multiple people who regularly used both WSL and full Linux. Without that, any WSL question that couldn't be translated into a general Linux question would exist in a disconnected partition of the community, and I don't think that's... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
Is that what people do? I'm pretty sure I'd answer the interesting my-topic-of-interest questions before dipping into the list of easy adjacent-topic questions; am I atypical? (Not a rhetorical question; maybe I am!) If so, is this tooling-related—e.g., does the site just not do a good enough job of ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
‘interesting questions below the carpentry tag have for some reasons decreased’ — For what reasons? Why wouldn't the same people with interesting questions as before continue to post under that tag? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278086 |
So, like, I love computers, and I don't mind seeing questions that don't interest me; I just won't answer them. I'll happily throw my hat into the ring for a Linux community, or for a retrocomputing community, or whatever community needs to exist to answer imperfectly framed questions about how the w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276995 |
Enthusiast here! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |