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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Fix ambiguity |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Use ampersand to keep heading on one line |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What incentives are there currently to edit and moderate? Should there be more? Intrinsic & extrinsic motivation, and perverse incentives It is clear that your intentions are good, but the outcomes may not be. Intrinsic or extrinsic? People's motivation for making edits may be intrinsic or extrinsic. That is, they may be motivated by the desire to see the site improve, or the... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290769 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Would there ever be A / B testing? ArtOfCode's answer covers true A/B testing, which involves a randomised experiment and the system to support it. However, the question sounds as if it is also considering the ability for individual users to choose how to see the site: > ... in case people want to see what the site would be like... (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290766 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Alternatives to the news feed taken as a default; the “attention economy” The front page can already be customised by each user, and more customisation is planned. If you think of specific improvements that could be made (such as being able to choose between the dashboard or the question list as the default page when you sign in), please raise them. Existing customisati... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290680 |
That sounds like a promising feature request in the making... (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290647 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Why do we have "General comments" threads? Comments below posts are grouped into threads, each of which can have a meaningful name so several different conversations can happen in parallel with less risk of confusion. However, sometimes the thread title is simply "General comments" which does not help the reader understand what the thread ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290641 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? From [How to ask a great question] in the help section: > If you put your question title into a search engine, can you find the answer to your question in the first three results? If so, perhaps consider [alternative ways of sharing that information] here on Codidact, or writing a self-answered qu... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
Yes I like the idea of using `trim` before testing to avoid whitespace only comments. (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290429 |
Post edited: Typo in title |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290388 |
Oh I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting. Maybe support is safest... (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289972 |
Post edited: Add missing word |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289970 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview Codidact posts support Markdown tables. For example, the following raw text: ```text Column 1 | Column 2 | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D ``` renders as: Column 1 | Column 2 | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D This works both in the edit preview and i... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288646 |
Sounds like a good plan. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |