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A: How do I close the flag dialog? Click Flag again. (more) |
— | 5 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | almost 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) |
— | almost 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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What to do about sock puppets in Site Proposals? The process for site proposals here seems to be that someone makes a post, then (usually) Monica comes in with an answer asking for anyone interested in the site to comment in order to gauge interest level. I don't know if there's anything so formal as a threshold for number of interested participant... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? Scope Proposal The community is centered on people with experience or interest in using or administrating the (GNU/)Linux operating system on servers or desktop (including laptops, excluding most phones and tablets) computers. Topicality of questions This community explicitly doesn't attempt... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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How granular should network communities be? What are (y)our principles for deciding how granular Codidact network communities should be? The Other Place seems to lean towards more granular communities—one for software development, one for server administration, one for UI design, one for theoretical computer science. For those with experience ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |