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Activity for trichoplax
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| 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) |
— | 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) |
— | 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) |
— | 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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #290851 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Should we change the footer layout? An alternative would be to remove the list altogether. There is already an "Other communities" link in the footer that links to the full list on codidact.com and the communities in the list are also reachable from the top of each page in either the communities drop down or the dashboard. The list in ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290850 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? By default all edits should show Every time an edit is made, the post or its parent should move to the top of the question list. This reduces the chance of an edit being missed by the community. Not every edit is reviewed. Some people have the Edit Posts ability and can edit without review, and... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290846 |
Post edited: Link to related discussions |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290841 |
Post edited: Link to new related discussion |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290847 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Minor suggested edits to old posts My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason to reject such edits, but I would not personally take the age of a post into account when making that decision. Until reading Olin Lathrop's answer, I hadn't realised that all the... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290846 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once? If edits are made to a large number of posts in a short period, they will push everything else off the front page, taking visibility away from recent questions and answers. They will also take visibility away from each other, so malicious or accidentally detrimental edits are less likely to be spotte... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290841 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Minor suggested edits to old posts There have recently been several edits in a short period of time by a single user. This user does not yet have the Edit Posts ability, so all of the edits are suggested edits, which require review by someone with the Edit Posts ability. The outcomes of the suggested edits affect whether this user ... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290834 |
Post edited: Update following Mithical's comment about admin access |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #290834 |
Post edited: Link to GitHub page on making a pull request |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290834 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability Thanks for spotting this. I've just checked and the typo is also present in the database seed that is used for setting up new communities, so it needs to be fixed there too to avoid this happening in future. As the code is open source, anyone is free to make a pull request that fixes this. The ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290822 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question Good idea, not just for closed questions I like the idea of hiding the sorting buttons when they serve no purpose. I see no reason to restrict this to closed questions. If the visibility of the sorting buttons is dependent on the number of answers then they will reappear when new answers are posted.... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290801 |
Post edited: Edit since I had misread the question (which never mentioned the question list) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290801 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: List all duplicates for a question on the target question's page I like this idea, but I wonder if it should be optional. For the link to search results that you mention, that sounds sufficiently unobtrusive that perhaps it wouldn't need to be optional. I think it would need a feature request for search first though - I don't think there's currently a way to se... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290770 |
As an aside: that phrase is older than Stack Exchange... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290770 |
I've edited to try and make my intention clearer. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Attempt to make clear that I am not against small edits, only the incentive to make them smaller |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Fix ambiguity |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Use ampersand to keep heading on one line |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290769 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290766 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 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 |