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| Comment | Post #287248 |
You ask would, but I'm not sure actually if it would be useful. Maybe you can think of something. Why should I care then an answer was first created? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285961 |
Looks like the bus factors are somewhere between two and three but with a plan to increase them in the future. I really like this idea of a comprehensive operations manual for the foundation. Whether it be system or domain administration skills, the essential information can probably get written down... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
It's a fixed phrase. The literal meaning is if something bad happens to someone (like been run over by a bus) what is the maximal number of people that this can happen to so that even in the worst case the organization still functions, i.e. onto how many shoulders is important knowledge distributed. ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
I copied a bit from the definition of the Wikipedia page. If you want, you can have a look if that would be sufficient information for you. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
Thanks. No problem, I'm patient. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
@#36363 Well then you make some things more difficult for you. But this doesn't have to be the case for others. An implementation would then primarily be a benefit for similar people. Maybe not the highest priority. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
Convenience or the absence of it is a problem. I'm lazy and I want to achieve X with less effort but cannot - can be seen as a perfect problem formulation. Maybe that was a misunderstanding here. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
@#36363 "I don't want to recall "long" passwords" If security is not important and you don't want to recall long passwords, why don't you use https://meta.codidact.com/users/mobile-login? It doesn't even require a password (I guess, not having tested this) and then mark the checkbox saying that you w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285848 |
One could probably make it work. By allowing anonymous questions (mobile or desktop doesn't matter, the content license doesn't require a logged in user) but sending them to a special review queue before and only making them visible to others if they are vetted. This would circumvent abuse and would ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
In that way we should probably remove the "ask question" button on mobile altogether and disable the submit button on the question ask page for at least 30 minutes (because that's the time it takes at least to think about a question, do research and write it all up). Or not. :)
A comprehensive dis... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
I didn't want to criticize you in any way. I actually like that you've made this feature request, even though I disagree because I see too many opportunities for abuse. But I can relate to the idea of not having to authenticate. It's surely a barrier to entry and less barriers would be better in prin... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
There is https://meta.codidact.com/users/mobile-login, which you probably only need to do once. Did you know about it?
Or maybe registration with a google/github account? (There might be a feature-request about that somewhere). (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285845 |
Have you checked https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tt.asp. They say that tt is kind of outdated and should be replaced by other tags. Could you replace tt with something else? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#8046 Just want to agree with Lundin. The duplicate is also a result of no action on the first such topic. I wonder why local moderation cannot manually solve the problem for the time being. Maybe is there some mod tooling that is missing and that should be added urgently? Maybe we could also just s... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285710 |
Personal top 10 contributions lists sound like a nice idea and maybe there are other such lists possible as well, but why not simply include that all in the free form edit field?
Maybe what is needed is more layout there. Nicely styled references to questions or LinkedIn profiles, so people can wr... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#36396 For an example, see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313960/introducing-the-developer-story, https://i.stack.imgur.com/alOyI.png (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
We can technically for sure, otherwise people wouldn't be able to suggest them in edits. I kind of works.
To avoid confusion in the editor, one could delimit tags by comma and strip leading and trailing spaces but otherwise leave tags as they are. I don't think there is really a strict technical ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
Because technically I think we could have that and maybe it would make sense and then this would not be the bug but the error message would be it instead. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
Added it https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/764 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@#8176 One difference to 10 years ago is that we know much better what high quality Q&A is and how to enforce it. Questions have to be clear, focused, objective, content has to be voted on and the really bad content has to be closed or deleted. I don't see that much risk of a repetition of the past.
... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@Lundin I see your concern about quality and it should definitely not be advertised as garbage dump, but I'm much less worried there. I like this idea and hope we can have the proposals community with the incubator category rather soon. I will worry about low quality of proposed questions there if th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279384 |
@#8162 Thank you for the extensive update. It's good to see progress is made even during such stressful times. If you need more feedback on policies of the panels, you can always ask for it on meta.
One last thing. Probably other people would be interested in reading this update too but it's quit... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
Now I thought about it and I think I'm a knowledge translator. I can help if they let me knowledge seekers to better seek and help knowledge providers to better provider by improving their respective contributions. Something like the lubricant in the knowledge distribution mechane. :) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
@#8056 In that case I'd say I'm more a knowledge seeker than a provider, but then all the knowledge I seek has already been provided somewhere in most cases. I would not need many more knowledge providers. What most knowledge seekers need is not a provider but more like a finder. The knowledge is out... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285571 |
... and for each proposed target site there should be a meta question defining what is on topic and what is off topic and what is high quality and what is low quality. Not sure we could define that here and for all possible cases. (Just saw that Monica had the same idea in her answer.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
@#36356 Thanks for the title. I like it. I thought of myself more along the lines of "expert amateur" or "amateur expert". It probably just means that these categories aren't totally binary. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
I have good enough search skills so that I can answer most of my question for myself, but I'm not as educated in a single subject that I can deliver high quality answers to difficult question except maybe in a small area that isn't covered on CD currently. Sure, I can edit and improve existing conten... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
Thanks for the explanation. That is more or less what I thought it would be. If current science doesn't know yet, one can speculate but one cannot simply break fundamental physical/chemical laws in order to make things works. Instead one should hint at how things could work. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
@#8046 Opening up new communities may not help much, but not opening up may also not help much either. The question is where more people can come from. As a compromise of opening up lots of new communities or opening up none, I came up with [let's open one](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285535). An... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
True, without more communities you may not be able to ask more questions, but then if there are not enough answerers, what good does it do to ask a question. You need everything, askers, answerers, good software, ... it's a miracle if one can pull that off.
For example, I like your question here, ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285501 |
Just to fully understand the answer, if I made a pull request about it on Github, this answer means it doesn't care either way, right?
Importance isn't that important for me in this case, because the time needed to change that is also very small. There might be more important things but they also ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279384 |
I was searching for public information about the Codidact Foundation (on codidact.org) and found only a link to this announcement. It says you are in the process to converting into a charitable organization and are working on bylaws but this post is more than a year old. I know that in the mean time ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285473 |
Yes, this is a try to cleanup somehow. I personally would maybe keep a very, very small amount of imported content (voted up a lot or having additional answers), but remove all automatically created users. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285473 |
Currently the number of links to SE users is limited by hiding them behind one level of indirection, i.e. you link to the user profile and the user profile links to the SE account. One could keep it that way but still demote the users to something less userlike. Even a single page with a list and nam... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
@#53922 I understand you now. That is a problem that can surely be solved one way or another, especially since nothing is really done yet and I'm basically waiting for Art to give feedback on another issue first. QPixel as a software itself can produce network profiles. There seem to be some special ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
@#53922 "But do we want to have network-wide profile in each community?" That is a misunderstanding. That is not what is wanted here. There should be only one network-wide profile and it should be separate from/on top of all community profiles. QPixel should be able to do it (at least I hope so and I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
@#53922 I thought that codidact as a whole is powered by a single QPixel instance and there is only a single database containing all the information currently. That's why making a network profile should be doable by adding some code to QPixel and then asking the Codidact admins to accept it and updat... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
@#55022 I don't know. Sometimes one just sees low quality content for 5 or 10 times in a row. That can happen. On the other side, upvoting every now and then would be an easy way around your limitations, but not much would be gained. What you probably want is some kind of anomaly detection, i.e. some... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285416 |
The dashboard might be a good landing page, although I don't understand why it exists for every sub-site (only the header changes between for example https://meta.codidact.com/dashboard and https://writing.codidact.com/dashboard). One could have a look at the differences of the dashboard and codidact... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285416 |
What you describe sounds to me like a customizable landing page. Basically codidact.com for logged in users. I fully agree with it (including the "there is too much space" and think this is a worthwhile project). The network profile should be reachable from there and should complement it. The customi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285401 |
Yes, but search is already some kind of filtering operation, so extra filtering on search is more like just a refined search. On the other hand the standard questions list can also be seen as searching for *. As you say above, it's all just a query of some sort. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277280 |
@#8058 Just checking, that migration of questions between communities isn't yet implemented? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
The biggest concern is probably mixing games development with games usage. It looks like to different pairs of shoes at first glance. There is a difference between a game developer and a game player, although one could maybe start with two different categories "games", "development" and split later ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
Recommendations are always a controversial topic. It could be that later-on a community decides to allow or disallow them. It's not like the scope is fixed forever. The problem with recommendations is that often they aren't very useful to others, incomplete or pure popularity contests. However with s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
@#36356 That's already quite a good definition. But of course it can also happen to while browsing through posts person A sees 10 posts of person B and votes on their quality. The difference is here only the looking at profiles step. What is maybe problematic about Codidact is that there is no vote l... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
I'm not sure that I understand what is meant here. Could maybe an example be given? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285264 |
@#53919 One open question is certainly the name of the merged site. Is it obvious how the merged site would be called? The second thing is the objection by r~~. He is only interested in Linux questions. Is there maybe a possibility to achieve that within a merged site? Or to what extent is it possibl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285286 |
Ah, the message was basically missing context then. It should have told you in which field you were adding which link that was removed and it should have told you how to reply in a meaningful way. Not sure that replying to moderator notifications is a feature of the software yet. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285286 |
Has it happened before? Would hackers be likely to send such notifications? As a phishing attempt it looks rather disingenuous. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |