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| Comment | Post #285553 |
The point of Codidact isn't wide-ranging free exchange--it's to ask technical and factual questions and get expert answers. I think we lose nothing on this particular site by "squashing" the kinds of free exchange that undermine the mission of the site. It doesn't squash it in the world, you still ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285553 |
I'm not sure censorship is always bad. Government censorship is one thing, but Codidact isn't anyone's government. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285552 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content I agree with everyone else here. Moreover, I would advocate for a rather "powerful" moderation of this site (powerful can mean large scope, frequent intervention, or in a bunch of other ways, just feeling free to err on the side of moderating rather than not). Codidact is not a discussion forum... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285446 |
I've also kind of wondered: Why not give users the ability to just download the full set of their own data? Like, processing the data into some easily read, minimal analytics sounds good. But also just give users their own raw data? I'm not sure how that data is stored on the backend and whether g... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
@#54706 True, and even if it happens, what's the harm in capping the number of downvotes? I've heard that in general, if you can slow down interactions that people have online, and give people time to think and calm down before reacting, it can help them to behave more politely and constructively. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285420 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we remove closed questions from the question list? I argue no, because in my experience, closed questions often (in fact VERY often) have answers that are extremely valuable. I have often searched for a question, found a closed duplicate, and the answers to it were more helpful for what I wanted than the answers to the original question. Al... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285293 |
Even if a poster does have low-quality posts, I think there is probably more downside to letting people downvote too much rather than not enough. If you downvote more than ... I dunno, 5 times in a row? 10 times? More than 2 standard deviations above average? Some similar metric that is proportio... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |