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Activity for trichoplax
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Comment | Post #291242 |
I also see the 500 error for your first 2 links, and a successful page for your last link. However, the number of characters in the search term does not appear to be the trigger.
For example, "da" gives a successful search, but "dt" gives me a 500.
So there's definitely a problem but I don't kn... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
Comment | Post #291233 |
How do people feel about showing no deleted posts in the main user profile page, but showing your own deleted posts when you click on "Show all" to see the full paginated list of all your own posts?
Would people still want a way to optionally hide deleted posts even in the full list? If so, could ... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
Comment | Post #291174 |
Maybe if the underlying post is not edited, but the interface only displays links from posts that are not flagged as spam, then there would be no bumping.
The interface could possibly leave the link showing, but when clicked it takes the user to an advice page about the dangers of spam... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
Comment | Post #291174 |
Yes I'm in 2 minds about blocking links from new users. I'd rather find a way that doesn't restrict anyone it doesn't need to. (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
Comment | Post #291173 |
Yes that works, but the question is should we continue to permit strings of spaces. Personally I'd like to see this prevented (quite possibly by your method), but that's not my decision to make. (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
Comment | Post #291174 |
Further protection could be provided by preventing new users from posting links. Perhaps it could be an ability that is earned. This way users would be protected from dangerous links even before the post is flagged.
The reaction approach could still be available as an additional measure for any sp... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
Comment | Post #291174 |
I like the idea of warning users that links may be dangerous, but in addition we could also remove links from a post when it is flagged as spam. If a moderator later decides the flag was incorrect, they can dismiss the flag and the link will be restored. (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
Comment | Post #291174 |
Some spam is just unwanted advertising, and the target of the link is irritating but not dangerous. Other spam links to sites that can steal data or money and is dangerous rather than just irritating.
Marking something as spam may not make sufficiently clear to all users that a link is dangerous t... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
Comment | Post #291153 |
In addition to allowing the outcome to be more tailored to each individual community, separate discussions per Codidact community would also allow some communities to experiment and try out different approaches, rather than trying to guess up front what is best. (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
Doubting myself, I reread the question and now I can see that it does mention less formal chat rather than just a specifically assigned mentor, so this might well be suitable for posting as an answer.
I'm going to leave it as a comment for now as I'm short of time but anyone is free to construct a... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
I decided to add comments for things that are not mentorship but may be of interest to people reading this question. If I was also announcing that there is not mentorship then I would make this an answer, but I don't have that information so I'm leaving it for someone better informed to indicate whet... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
The following is not official mentorship in the sense of having an assigned mentor, but is a great source of help when contributing:
The chat link in the right hand panel (or lower down the page on mobile) goes to a Discord server called "Codidact Communities" with a channel for each community. Th... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
Also, this comment thread only works as a signpost to Collab for new contributors if it stays here on Meta... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
The fact that Collab is easy to overlook makes me personally think that people just wondering about whether to contribute are more likely to benefit from this question staying here on Meta. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
For anyone who wasn't aware of this community and would like it to be more visible, I previously posted on Meta about this possibility: [Codidact Collab - should it be listed?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287378) (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291130 |
Not quite mentoring, but relevant to people looking to contribute:
There is a whole Codidact community dedicated to questions about contributing to or setting up the QPixel software: [Codidact Collab](https://collab.codidact.org/) (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291107 |
I think many people can handle securely recording an id, but I would want it made very clear that unlike with a password, there is no way to reset the id if they do lose it. This way a user can make an informed decision whether to accept that risk.
Some users may be confident that they can remembe... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291127 |
(That last comment of mine was sent hours ago before your responses but my internet failed so now it's out of order...) (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291127 |
I'm recommending making the post as clear as possible because I believe this is an important discussion to have, particularly because Codidact is set up to let communities largely govern themselves via Meta. Where to draw the line between helpfulness and strictness is a subjective decision that may h... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
Comment | Post #291127 |
I think there's a typo in the paragraph directly following the bullet points - first and second seem to be switched from what you intend in at least one place.
Even if that is fixed, the reader still needs to keep track of what "first" and "second" mean for the rest of the post. I wonder if it mig... (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
Comment | Post #291106 |
In addition to fixing this, would it also be useful to have the option to "apply this to all communities" when changing this setting? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #291107 |
I don't think it's a question of intelligence. Most people still occasionally need to reset a password. If implemented, I'd expect the default to still be to use an email address (which makes password resets easy), with the unique id only approach requiring clicking on a link and reading a warning be... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #291094 |
Personally I'd be perfectly happy with reducing all the minimums to 1 character, but even if that decision was mine to make, we'd still need to deal with the case where someone accidentally submits a single space. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #291073 |
I like your suggestions, and I'd like to see them exist, so this is just a possible substitute in the meantime:
The [dashboard](https://meta.codidact.com/dashboard) (in the hamburger menu on mobile, or the grid of 9 squares icon at the top right on desktop) doesn't show individual questions, but i... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #291043 |
That sounds like the perfect middle ground, that leaves all users well informed. If that was an answer I would upvote it... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #291043 |
To me a nag is a repeated notification. If you would prefer only opt in notifications you could post an answer. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
Comment | Post #290996 |
On mobile (Firefox on Android) the sample table does not look identical to the screenshot, but still splits words in the first column. It actually splits them worse ("Element" and "hydrogen" are split across 3 lines each). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290996 |
I can confirm that the sample table and the screenshot look identical to me (viewing on Firefox on Fedora Linux) so the problem seems to be independent of browser or operating system. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290996 |
(Alternatively, a link to the post the current screenshot was taken from would help narrow down who is affected.) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290996 |
I wonder if it might help to add an example table to this post, alongside a screenshot of how it looks for you. This would make it immediately clear whether each viewer is seeing the same problem, which could help narrow down which browsers and operating systems are affected. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290957 |
The advantage of linking to an answer rather than refering to it as "the answer by @sam" is that in general a user may post more than 1 answer to the same question, and at the time of mentioning them they may have only posted 1 answer. This means the mention is unambiguous at the time of posting, but... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290930 |
For avoiding manually doing that, the "Copy Link" button below each post will give you the option of copying the full markdown required instead of just a raw link.
This was implemented in response to:
- [Linking to posts with anchor text is too hard](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288499) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290962 |
The concern about wasted vertical space can be addressed either separately or as part of introducing a customisable order. Even if the user is able to rearrange the communities into an arbitrary order, the vertical space between communities in a column can be removed without needing to match heights ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290962 |
It might be worth considering this in conjunction with changes to how communities are listed in general, not just in the dashboard, and any customisation options we may introduce in future. For example, there are the following discussions:
- [What information should be displayed on a network profile... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290856 |
Also, I don't find the cross button intuitive. I could not guess what outcome to expect when I click on it. Delete all tags? Delete the most recent (rightmost) tag? Cancel a tag that is part way through being typed?
Even if someone prefers the mouse to the keyboard, there are already crosses on th... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290860 |
There's already the suggestion of measuring the length requirements after converting to HTML (which would exclude the stripped out tags) to handle the problem at the other end of the length scale: [False positive for 30,000 character limit](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287292) which has [a GitHub ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #289262 |
Because anyone can make a post, so anyone can become an original author.
If the original author has the ability to edit their own post without the post going to the top of the question list, then a malicious user can introduce malicious content to the site as follows:
1. Make a new post (so the... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290770 |
I agree that this would be less of a problem on Codidact, where reputation does not unlock abilities. However, in general I still think many people are driven by the desire to see a number go up, even if there are no resulting benefits, so I'm glad there is no reputation reward for making edits. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290801 |
I misread "question page" as "question list", so most of my first paragraph is irrelevant. I'll edit to make more sense... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290770 |
As an aside: that phrase is older than Stack Exchange... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290770 |
I've edited to try and make my intention clearer. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290770 |
I'm not suggesting that small edits should be avoided. I'm looking to avoid introducing an incentive for an editor to make their edit smaller than they would naturally have made it without the reward.
If someone makes a single word edit because that's all they want to make, that's a useful contrib... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290775 |
> Every now and then, I read through a different part of the preview than where I am writing in the source.
I see what you mean - sometimes I'm writing something based on wording from earlier in the same post so I would need the scrolling of source and preview to be in different parts of the post.... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290775 |
Do you have a desire for this particular solution, or are you looking for any solution to your underlying problem?
Is your underlying problem that you want to be able to easily edit while reading through the preview?
Would a side by side view that scrolls the raw text in step with the preview b... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290736 |
I agree this would be a distraction from questions that are already ready to answer.
There's something similar on Code Golf Codidact. The [Sandbox category](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/50) where people can post ideas for coding challenges and get feedback and slowly improve them unti... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290759 |
In an idealised world, where the experts always give perfect answers that need no improvement, a Q&A site would be entirely distinct from a forum. In the messy real world, where even experts make mistakes, our Q&A site has comment threads for discussion of how questions and answers can be improved.
... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290699 |
If we don't want to support the `style` attribute in general, we could possibly add more specific allowed styles. Maybe just the ones for table alignment. I don't know how practical that would be - just wondering. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290699 |
I'm not familiar with the process, but the end result appears to be HTML for an aligned table, so it may be that the Markdown library is already outputting the required HTML, and that the only obstacle is that we do not yet support that HTML.
Every so often new elements and attributes are added to... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
Comment | Post #290680 |
That sounds like a promising feature request in the making... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
Comment | Post #290680 |
When there are no answers yet, I wonder if preventing a user from closing their own question might lead to them deleting their own question as an alternative way of keeping a draft. Would this be worse than closing? It still causes unwanted updates of the question list, but causes additional frustrat... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |