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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290841 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290834 |
Post edited: Update following Mithical's comment about admin access |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290834 |
Post edited: Link to GitHub page on making a pull request |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290834 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290822 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290801 |
Post edited: Edit since I had misread the question (which never mentioned the question list) |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290801 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290770 |
As an aside: that phrase is older than Stack Exchange... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290770 |
I've edited to try and make my intention clearer. (more) |
— | 10 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 |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Fix ambiguity |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 |
Post edited: Use ampersand to keep heading on one line |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290770 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290769 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290766 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 10 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290680 |
That sounds like a promising feature request in the making... (more) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290647 | Initial revision | — | 11 months 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290641 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
Yes I like the idea of using `trim` before testing to avoid whitespace only comments. (more) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 months ago |