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Activity for trichoplax
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| 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.
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— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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 |
| Comment | Post #290676 |
I agree that option 2 is the solution that makes sense long term.
Option 1 would be nice to have in the meantime but only seems worth working on if there is an obstacle to working on option 2. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290662 |
Until it becomes possible for thread authors to edit their own thread titles, they can request that a moderator edit the title by flagging one of the comments.
This can be useful if there is a typo in the thread title, or if it has become misleading. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289708 |
This fixes the problem. Just adding this comment in case it isn't clear why the question was marked as "status-completed". (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290648 |
When dealing with someone well meaning but harsh, it's often better to avoid subtle hints. You're both providing your time free of charge to support the community. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290648 |
It's possible the strength of feeling on both sides of this discussion may be lessened when it becomes possible to [edit thread titles](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282459). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #277240 |
It is now possible to flag individual comments. I've added [an answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277238/287640#answer-287640) describing how. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #277239 |
It is now possible to flag individual comments. I've added [an answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277238/287640#answer-287640) describing how. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290647 |
I'm asking this question as a reminder to write an answer at some point, as somewhere to link to when people use "General comments" for new thread titles. Anyone should feel free to write an answer in the meantime. I'll write mine when I get around to it if no one else has. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
Yes I like the idea of using `trim` before testing to avoid whitespace only comments. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
I can't imagine a punctuation only comment outside of code golf, but it does seem easier to avoid the special case by not preventing punctuation only comments anywhere. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290429 |
In case it's relevant to this discussion, there was previously [Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276749) (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290429 |
The score is shown when you hover over the vote counts. This was [implemented recently](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287763) so it's only been available for the last week or so.
I think this is an improvement over no score at all, but it may not be obvious that it's available, and it doesn't he... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290388 |
Oh I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting. Maybe support is safest... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290388 |
I also see no problem with using support@codidact.org as the accessibility contact, but if a dedicated email address is required, I would much prefer accessibility@codidact.org rather than access@codidact.org - removing the ambiguity seems worth the extra 7 characters. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290312 |
I like this idea of still being able to see the individual upvote count and downvote count in the tooltip, so the information is not immediately presented but still available.
We'd need to make sure any such tooltip is still available on mobile (currently the Wilson score is only available on desk... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290312 |
I would prefer client side pies as this will be less data to transfer than sending prerendered pies from the server. Even with 1% score resolution most pies won't be cached locally until the user has seen a lot of pies.
It is not necessary to use JavaScript for client side rendering of pies. This ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290312 |
Although this presentation is very different from showing upvotes against downvotes, there is an analogous presentation already in wide usage on shopping websites.
Review scores are often displayed primarily as a score (such as 4 stars out of 5) with the number of reviews displayed as supplementar... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290312 |
This is not a strong preference, just my first thought:
I'd probably make the pies behave like an analogue clock, with zero being up and counting clockwise around to 100% being a full circle.
This choice is easy to change later though. I like the idea of pies as an analogue (but easily graspabl... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290260 |
My personal preference is to have all edits visible, but even if early edits are hidden, I would want them to still be visible to administrators, and ideally to moderators, so that abuse of this feature is easy to verify.
This would still not make it easy to detect, only easy to verify reported ca... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290086 |
That's the trouble with things that have so many names: "tooltip" / "hovertext" / "title text" - it's difficult to know what to search for. I knew where it was because I just happened to have received a comment on it today. Thanks for closing! (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290086 |
After review it will need to wait for the release of the next version, but it means you might see the new tooltip sooner than you might have expected. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290086 |
What an excellent suggestion. You'll be pleased to hear that it was [already raised about 9 months ago](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287763) and the comments there suggest a fix is already implemented, just waiting for code review. I'm aiming to review it tomorrow if no one else picks it up before... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289986 |
It was already closed as a duplicate before I posted my comment. I was just pointing out that the duplicate target only covers half of this post - the other half would be worth adding as an answer to the network profile discussion. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289986 |
This post conflates two distinct potential features:
1. The ability to see when a user last logged in (already raised previously - see the duplicate target).
1. The ability to see the activity data that is already available per community, but combined into a single common location (this could be pa... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288646 |
Sounds like a good plan. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288646 |
I haven't found a way to reproduce this, or spotted anything in common between the different edits in which it happens. I haven't seen it for probably a few months, but it was rare so I don't know if that means it's fixed or not. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288647 |
(That post suggests that Firefox guesses the correct file extension - it seems that in this case Firefox mobile is guessing an incorrect file extension.) (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288647 |
From reading that post I have established that the `.bin` automatically added to older image links is only being added by Firefox mobile. Chrome mobile does not add an extension. Note that Chrome mobile still fails to open the file - the only difference is that it does not add a file extension before... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288337 |
Fixed for me too - thanks for checking. I'm guessing this might have been fixed at the same time as allowing the profile to be reverted to empty and not need a minimum number of characters. Either way, this looks status-completed to me. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289721 |
You may occasionally see a thread that has had all of its comments deleted. However, this is just leftover from before automatic hiding of such threads was introduced. If you see such an empty thread, you can trigger its removal by adding a comment and immediately deleting the comment. The thread wil... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
If we did decide to discard changes if the field is still in focus then there are events in JavaScript for leaving a page so it should be possible.
I don't have a strong preference on whether we change the behaviour or the wording, as long as they are consistent and unambiguous. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
Yes I agree that technically the field lost focus, but it could be clearer to the user (especially for nontechnical users). (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
The title mentions "Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators". In addition to discussing potential close reasons, are you also looking for mechanisms for notifying curators of posts that need a decision from them?
For example, adding a close vote could also add the post to a queue of posts ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Oh - you already did :) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
I guess you could post it as an answer saying "here's a workaround until we get a proper solution". (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Also, that would make a great answer. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Far from a solution so not posting as an answer:
If you put a wide image (such as a desktop screenshot) in a quote block, then the reduced horizontal space results in the height of the image also being reduced. It only makes a small difference though, and has no effect at all on tall narrow images... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Is there any reason that images shouldn't work in threads? Is it worth adding a feature request to have the `img` tag permitted? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289626 |
I don't have reasons for or against. I've started a Meta discussion so that people can answer with any reasons, positive or negative, for or against these or any other questions they think of. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
Would it be slightly more likely to get people to look in the right place if it instead said "Not here (see below)" or possibly "Not here (see link below)" if that fits on mobile? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
[Codidact Collab - should it be listed?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287378) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
[Add proposals to Codidact.com](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289609) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
Having said this, I don't believe the reference to English as a first language was intended with malice. Only Olin can know this for certain, but my impression is that it was intended to soften the English usage advice, by indicating understanding. It appears to have had the opposite effect, which I'... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
I have 2 issues with the mention of English in this answer:
1. We don't have a requirement that a post's English have any particular minimum quality. We have the ability to edit each other's posts so that we can each add our own respective strengths.
2. English being an author's second language i... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289590 |
My main aim with this answer is to avoid losing your future contributions. People don't generally rant about things unless they care.
Although your first set of suggestions was rushed and ranty and turned out to have already been discussed, I'm still hoping you'll stick around to make further sugg... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |