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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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286221 |
Post edited: now English language improvements |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286303 |
Post edited: small improvement in presentation |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #286303 |
Suggested edit: small improvement in presentation (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #286221 |
Suggested edit: now English language improvements (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286221 |
Post edited: minor formatting, capitalization, removed unnecessary phrases |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286246 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow? Summary: It's different, but maybe not that different and whether it's better or worse - only the future will be able to tell. For information about Codidact see the help center and the Codidact blog category. The differences are mostly in the organizational structure (open source software, a c... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #286221 |
Suggested edit: minor formatting, capitalization, removed unnecessary phrases (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #286086 |
Suggested edit: after it is confirmed in the current answer that it doesn't exist yet, let's convert it into a feature request (more) |
declined | over 2 years 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285954 |
Post edited: definition of the bus factor as requested in a comment |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285954 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
Thanks. No problem, I'm patient. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285954 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
What are the bus factors of Codidact? The purpose of this post is to draw attention to possibly low bus factors and to maybe lead to a more failsafe organization structure by just asking for information. What are the bus factors for the various parts of Codidact? The bus factor quantifies how much the operation of an organization i... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285842 |
Post edited: it's a well written feature request (without the additional unrelated info) that unfortunately people disagree with, let's keep it as it is |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285859 |
Post edited: some typos |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285859 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Allow posting without logging in at least in some communities Allowing anonymous posting because one is too lazy to sign in or doesn't want to be kept signed in (as is the case here) when already signed up is not a good idea in my opinion, because all the downsides mentioned in other answers (higher risk of spam) apply without many upsides. One can try though t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #285842 |
Suggested edit: it's a well written feature request (without the additional unrelated info) that unfortunately people disagree with, let's keep it as it is (more) |
helpful | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285709 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285709 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285709 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Request for a Member Story feature which helps to highlight a Codidact member's topic expertise The idea of the developer story on StackOverflow was to present yourself to potential employers. (For further reading see Introducing the Developer Story or Developer story: first impression where one can also see example screenshots - basically a vertical timeline) It was some kind of resume, simila... (more) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
Added it https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/764 (more) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285570 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |