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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #288707 |
If the only reason to distinguish deleted users is the problem described (confusing threads involving 2 or more deleted users), then perhaps a per question approach could work:
- If a question & its answers & comment threads contains only 1 deleted user, show them as "deleted user"
- If a questio... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288707 |
In terms of privacy, generating a new number for the deleted account would fall somewhere between using their original user id and using the same fixed "deleted user" for all deleted users.
It would protect against being identified by people who already know your user id, but if anyone also knows ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288695 |
I understand now. I'm not sure what to call them, but each Meta question requires at least one of them.
Although very few questions have more than one of these required tags, some questions change between them as more information becomes available, which would require moving between categories if ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288695 |
When you say "meta tags" do you mean "status tags" (the ones that show in red on the tags tab)? These can only be applied by a moderator and I've never seen a post with more than 1 status tag applied. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288693 |
I think I would rather that voting on a bug / feature request require visiting the specific page rather than being able to vote on the status page.
Voting on the status page would be voting on only the title, rather than on the full description, and would also skip viewing the answers and comments... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288693 |
Most of the bugs and feature requests that are planned to be fixed/implemented go on to be raised as [issues on GitHub](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues). This can be filtered by open/closed, priority, and estimated difficulty. I'd still like to see an overview tool here on Meta too, but Git... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288694 |
In fact you can view all of these tags together by [searching the tags tab for "status"](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags?q=status). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288694 |
If you look at the [tags tab](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags) and scroll through, you will find a number of red tags that can only be applied by a moderator or administrator, and seem to cover the purpose you suggest. So we might be nearer to a solution than first thought. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288682 |
Interesting - it indents but misses out the bullets. Does the question that you posted that answer to show bullets correctly for you? If so, it would be useful to know whether your answer renders bullets correctly if you change the asterisks (`*`) to hyphens (`-`). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288674 |
I also had this experience, but with a comment rather than an answer, resulting in a duplicate comment. I can't find it now that it's deleted but if I see this again I will take a screenshot before deleting and link to the comment thread. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288642 |
You could raise this as a separate Meta post tagged "bug" and then it can be investigated. It also means anyone else who has a similar experience can add their information too. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
I try to raise as many minor bugs and feature requests as I can. Just because they're not essential doesn't mean we shouldn't have them.
With the code being open source, they can make good first issues for people wanting to get started, so they don't necessarily have to wait a long time to be impl... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
Is it worth raising separately that the licence wording could be less abbreviated? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
I see your point about the extra UI. Even though I ignore it now and just leave the licence as the default, I do remember spending more time thinking about it when I first arrived (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
No problem - replies don't need to be in real time :) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288609 |
Some Meta questions are feature requests, and votes can express support or opposition to the feature. Other Meta questions are discussions, and do not express an opinion, just provide a place for opinions to be expressed in answers. In such cases I see upvotes on the discussion question as indicating... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
I know you've already [raised the idea of the question title being a link](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288499).
I also like the idea of the last edited timestamp being a link to the edit history. I like the explicit "History" button, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't have both links -... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
Although this won't cover all of your personal user scripts, each community can add scripts that are then present for all users, rather than users having to individually install user scripts.
For example, challenges on Code Golf Codidact have a leaderboard that shows up for all users, whereas on S... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
In the answer, it might be worth rephrasing
> you have to choose how to license that post
to
> you can choose how to license that post if you don't want the default
At present the wording sounds like you have an extra obstacle to posting, whereas in practice I just don't change the lice... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I now understand the problem. I have edited to explain that this is still a bug, and [raised an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1084). (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I've confirmed this by deleting a comment thread on a question post that I posted. I see the "Show more" button that you mentioned. This doesn't seem to serve any purpose, because I can't see the deleted comment even though I posted it. Definitely seems like a bug. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I've just realised the difference - you are the poster of that answer. It looks like the empty thread is hidden from non-moderators, with the exception of you, who posted the answer. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
Did you have that page open already? If I follow the first link in your comment I don't see a "Show more" button at the bottom of the answer. I just see "0 comment threads". (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
Turns out this is already saved server side, just is not reliably being picked up by other devices, so I've reclassified as a bug. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
I also prefer the database approach. Also allows use on a shared computer by several people signing in at different times. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288499 |
I really like this idea. It does mean one additional click for someone who wants the plain URL, but for me that would be a reasonable price to pay.
An alternative would be to have separate buttons rather than a drop down. One additional button would probably fit on desktop view, but probably not t... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288499 |
[ Can the title of the question be a "clean" link to the question itself? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280149)
This is similar to your feature request #1 but without the rich/markdown link, and there is one answer pointing out that this can make it more difficult to copy just the text of the ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288442 |
No need for the check - it's working now. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288454 |
Thank you! I've checked and can confirm that both this existing post and a new draft show images correctly now. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288442 |
That sounds consistent with old images showing fine and new images not showing. Thanks for the info - I'll check back in 24 hours and edit accordingly. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288303 |
I can confirm that it currently allows any string - no numbers required. Mine is currently a link to a Meta post. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #278611 |
From the other, older, comment thread, it appears that pre-existing numbered lists now show correctly too. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288278 |
I agree that there are fundamental differences that give Codidact a much better chance of turning out well long term, but I'm also really glad that potential future problems are being discussed now, while there is time to try out new ideas that might help.
I see one of Codidact's strongest advanta... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288294 |
I understand website reviews being off topic to keep the questions section focused. How would you feel about a separate category for site reviews, like the separate category for code reviews on [Software Codidact](https://software.codidact.com/)? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
Yes you're right, this is a bug. It was [reported on Software Meta](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288238) and a [fix has been implemented](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/1057), but has not yet been deployed. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
I absolutely agree that we cannot separate voting from people's likes and dislikes. Voting is indeed far from the ideal of purely assessing accuracy and quality.
My concern is that this proposal would push voting even further from that ideal.
At present, people voting selfishly can still give a... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
People's voting will be for a mixture of reasons, some of them political, and this proposal will not distinguish the reasons. This means that filtering based on prejudice will implicitly happen, which would be much easier to detect with tags than with automatically adjusted vote values.
I like the... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288273 |
[Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288156) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288268 |
What a downvoter means by their downvote is not defined by the guidance in the help documents. It is a personal decision. Anyone can downvote for any reason, and at least some downvotes are motivated by disagreement.
> "Downvote != disagree" is a concept that long predates both this site and even ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288266 |
On Meta, downvotes can indicate that a post is low quality, but they can also indicate disagreement with the opinion expressed, even if that opinion is expressed eloquently.
So although I am in favour of keeping downvotes (and will be adding an answer expressing a benefit), I do appreciate that th... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288229 |
On my phone, the number of posts now shows without having to scroll down, so I would say this is sufficient to mark this as status-completed - pressing search no longer has no visible effect.
I agree it would be good to consider further improvements, such as possibly collapsing the "Advanced Searc... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288223 |
I'd be interested to know why this has been downvoted. Here on Meta, a downvote can mean disagreement/disapproval, but it can also mean a post is not worded well.
Does the post need more detail, or is there objection to the idea?
If I understand correctly, the request is to provide only the sam... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288215 |
I've checked and the same behaviour shows for me. The sort order is fixed regardless of which sort button is pressed, and the order does not match what would be expected for either Reputation or Age.
The sort order appears to put staff first, followed by everyone else in almost lexicographical ord... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288189 |
That's good to know. I guess as a quick fix rather than constructing a description of the filter we could just show something like "Filters (un-named filter)", so it's immediately clear that the list is filtered. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
That seems like a good reason to make the filters start collapsed, but they might still benefit from a summary in parentheses for after filters are applied.
This isn't really search specific though, so maybe I'll raise this for filters in general. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
To counteract the lack of information when the filter section is collapsed, we could show a filter summary when collapsed. On post lists, the collapsed filter section already says "Filters (none)" when no filters are applied, but simply "Filters ()" when there are filters applied.
Those empty pare... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288156 |
The section on quality makes me realise that anyone can vote on any proposal, even if it is not a proposal they have an interest in / knowledge about. This is true of all of our communities, but in the incubator the proposals will all be presented in one place so people browsing will be more likely t... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
Might be worth having a quick note somewhere to help people understand how to get the most out of the filters with the incubator. If you filter to include tags for proposal-a and proposal-b, you will only see posts tagged with ***both*** of those tags, which in most cases will be none.
The solutio... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
I see the problem, but I'd expect it to take far more effort than that to make a proposal seem viable under the new system where there need to be many questions and many answers.
I acknowledge that we can't rule out the possibility of someone trying though. The incubator would definitely benefit f... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
My initial assumption was that edit wars on the Site Description would lead to a Meta post discussing which description to go with.
I can see the appeal of having the proposed modifications as "answers" to the Site Description post, so that they are right there for voting and discussion rather tha... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |