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A: How to grow all of our communities? Make Codidact a helpful place. The most basic reason why people use a QA site is because they want help. Specifically, they have a question and want it answered quickly and usefully. "Quickly" can be very dependent on the exact case, but take a classic example: You are trying to write some code... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290040 |
I have seen feedback on this site that doesn't seem to follow these rules. What's the solution in those cases? Is it just to flag the feedback and say it doesn't follow CoC? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290039 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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What is the appropriate tone for feedback on questions and answers? When giving feedback (comments, edits, reactions) what is the appropriate tone? In other words, how should you phrase your feedback? Should you assume knowledge of all site rules? Should you assume knowledge of only "main" site rules but not all? How friendly should you be? Is it okay to s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290036 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts? I think the basic question is: >Would future readers of the question want to see it? The main way to use a Q&A site is not to ask or answer questions, but to view existing posts. A post may have 1 person asking, and 5-10 answering, but it could easily have thousands of people reading it in the ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290006 |
Based on feedback from you two, I don't like this question anymore. I think it's badly phrased - it should be asking for a follow activity feature, not edit notification. What's better, if I edit it, or delete and post a new one? Or just leave as is and assume people will read the comments anyway? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290006 |
Follow changes actually sounds like a better idea. I think Stack also had a "bookmark" button where you would get notified about answers even though you didn't post the question. I don't know if it notified about edits. Plus you couldn't follow answers, only questions.
Follow activity (ideally for... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290006 |
Couldn't you just have a checkbox in your settings, that says "don't notify me about edits to questions I voted on"? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290006 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Notification on edits to voted post When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You might feel like you'd rather not upvote it anymore, but who has time for constantly checking every questi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289986 |
Ah, my bad. I only saw the notification when it was closed already.
FWIW the linked duplicate question satisfies all concerns I had when asking this. But if anyone would still like to know about the other half, they should probably ask a separate question about it, since this one is closed. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289986 |
Actually, this post has been closed as a duplicate after I flagged it. Thanks mods! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289993 |
I think this assertion is contrary to my experience. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289993 |
So you're saying that, if someone opens the front page of software.codidact.com, and sees that the top 20 questions are python, they would assume only python is on topic even though the site is called "Software Engineering"? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289990 |
Both of the examples strike me as excessively chatty. I think that if you cut out all the ritual, and left it at simply "What color are Elbonian traffic lights?" or "What is quantum frobnication?" it would be much more readable (I honestly was only able to get through these for the sake of understand... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277389 |
I'm all for privacy, but it's legitimately useful to know if a user has been around lately or not. Is there not some reasonable way around it?
For example, maybe it could be opt in?
Or maybe instead of showing a precise time, there could be some deliberately fuzzed probability that the user was... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289986 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Where is "user last seen"? How can I tell when a user last logged in? When I go to their profile's "Activity" tab, it shows me only activity on that site. I don't want to cycle through every site one by one. The global doesn't have to be precise. I'm not trying to stalk anyone. Sometimes I see an old question and want to... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289971 |
I guess I found a more succinct way to restate this: If you try to teach a hungry man to fish, he will simply get mad, because he is too hungry to learn a craft. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289912 |
I guess the claim here is that every site has a completely different idea of what makes a good question, and they have hardly anything in common. The last part (commonalities that apply to any site) is basically what this question is trying to answer. Hence, the question is pointless, because no answ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289977 |
Many interesting points here - but in particular, I think clutter is worth expanding on. I asked a separate question for it: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289978 (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289979 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? This is not an answer, but more detail about why it confuses me. I left it out of the question to keep it succinct. You can read this as an answer to the effect of "I have searched for a meaning/definition and failed to find one". I know I hate my house or my desk being cluttered. I am not wealthy... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289978 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? It's common to hear comments about QA sites being "cluttered", "clogged", "spammed" etc. with types of questions that the commenter doesn't want. What does this actually mean? Is there a definition of "clutter"? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289971 |
I of course appreciate the concern illustrated in the widely quoted fish aphorism, but it's ultimately just a saying, not natural law. Many (most?) things I learned, had someone holding my hand at first. I rarely had the good fortune of having a wise mentor who would "teach me to fish". Instead, even... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289953 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? My answers would be that: It's okay to ask here even if the answer is readily available elsewhere There is no minimum level of research, beyond ensuring it's clear what's being asked It is not bad to use the community as a resource, that is what the community exists for Of course this is j... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289951 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? It is generally considered good practice to try and do your own research to find the answer to a question before you post it. There are some questions where the asker is just not capable of finding the answer on their own, no matter how much research they do on their own. As a contrived example, l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289910 |
@#64277, since you appear interested in debating the regex question per se, you should probably leave a comment on that. I note also that while it received 3 downvotes, it also received 3 upvotes, and besides none of the downvoters have bothered to leave any feedback, which I maintain is a terrible w... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289912 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Outline of what makes a high quality question For a QA site to be good, it's important to have high-quality questions. The community is a great resource for guiding askers with the technical tools that CD provides. However, it is helpful for the community to have a mature understanding of what actually makes a good question. I say "mature und... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289911 |
Generally, I try to post questions here even if they are on StackOverflow, unless the question seems really boring. I actually often get higher quality responses here (although fewer of them, and slower), and people are a bit more open minded and less bureaucratic.
However, sometimes laziness gets... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289910 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow We are a late starter QA site, so we are disadvantaged vs. competitors like Stack Overflow. Namely, a lot of basic questions are already asked and answered there, and people are less likely to organically re-ask them here. For us to accumulate such basic/well-known questions and answers will take a v... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289381 |
That sounds like a reasonable solution - I hadn't thought of it, but if I did, I would have added it to the question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289424 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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What do we do with suspected AI users? I have noticed a user that I suspect may be posting AI generated content. What should I do in such a situation? I don't want to go into exactly why I think it's an AI. Suffice to say, I work on LLM related tools like AutoGPT so I have some familiarity with what sort of content they output. Depe... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289381 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Assessing the 5 tag limit The tag limit is a trade off. If you allow many tags, you have more freedom when tagging, but also you must work harder to clean up unnecessary tags from people who don't know better. That last one assumes too many tags is a problem. Steam, for example, has no limits on tags for a game, and functions... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289322 |
Are you talking about HTTP REST API or something like a Python package? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289314 |
That is some sick Markdown wizardry, man. I had no idea you could do that - really cool! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289297 |
I never paid attention to where I click from.
So are you saying that a notification for page XYZ only goes away if I'm already on XYZ? I'll try to keep an eye out for that. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289293 |
Sure, I'll take a look when I have a moment!
I think if there's multiple people interested in this, the logical thing is to have an adapter package: A library that presents like an API client, but behind the sees does everything through scraping. All actual applications would import this lib and u... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289297 |
I occasionally see this also - a blue circle with no number in it. Although I think sometimes the circle loads before the number.
To be clear, the bug in my OP *always* goes away after clicking on the notification 2-5 times. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289296 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Notifications sometimes stay unread after clicking I noticed that sometimes when I click notifications, they keep reappearing after I refresh. If I refresh several times, and click several times, eventually it "sticks" and they become read. I don't think it makes a difference to open in current tab vs. new tab. I'm not sure about exact steps to repro... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289282 |
Nothing against newbies btw: In domains where I'm an expert, I'm occasionally in the mood to answer basic newbie questions. Other times I'm bored of the basic stuff and only want to see the "meaty" stuff. It would be nice to have a way of filtering those, that works based on the natural default behav... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289282 |
Well, that's my point. It would be work to get newbies to tag their question `newbie-question`. But it's no work at all to get them to tag with vague tags like `voltage`, they already do it automatically. Being newbies, they don't have enough knowledge about the field to know the more specialized tag... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289293 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools? I'd look to use my own tools for browsing Codidact. Examples include: Summarize activity for a proposal I'm interested in, similar to what's described in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289288/289291#answer-289291 Summarize latest posts in a way that the site UI doesn't yet support, such as col... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289282 |
It seems like tagging `voltage` conveys useful information, namely that the question is *about* voltage. It seems a bit like saying an `electron` tag would be useless on a chemistry site because everything has electrons - yes but you're not tagging it `electron` because it has them, you're tagging it... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289292 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. I don't see anything wrong with a way to ban tags, other than it would require more coding from CD devs. Nothing wrong with that - you need to break some eggs if you want an omelette. However, maybe it's actually not necessary? I've seen SO do a thing where they create the over-general tag, and th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289291 |
I think there is an opportunity here to kill the proverbial two birds. However, you have a point with over-generality. I think it's completely fine if staleness is implemented for proposal reactions only. If it works out well, we can always make another meta post later for expanding this feature.
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| Comment | Post #289290 |
Just a minor note, but the same applies to marking as "works for me". If you mark an answer as "works for me" and then it's edited, it potentially makes you "works for me" irrelevant (depending on how substantial an edit is). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289290 |
If you marked something dangerous, you should get notifications when the post is edited. That way you can review it and decide whether it's still dangerous.
IMO that's an argument to add staleness to "dangerous" as well - if the question is not edited it should never go stale, but if the question ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289288 |
Yes, but you're around. If you said you'd use proposal X, and forgot about it 3 years ago, but now proposal X gets created, there's a good chance you'd see it and use it as you initially said. This is different from someone who has stopped using the site entirely, as many of their reactions become mu... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289288 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Indicate stale reactions based on user activity Reactions are currently used on CD to: Confirm an answer worked (similar to accepting an answer on SO) Show that an answer is dangerous Indicate interest in participating in a proposed CD site Some of these have enduring meaning. For example, if `rm -rf ` was dangerous 50 years ago, it is ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289143 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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New and interesting question feeds without email It appears that Codidact has notification streams for new questions and interesting questions, but currently these are over email. Can you add a search filter, global page, RSS feed or some other way of consuming these streams, without using email? I dislike using email as a notification channe... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289142 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Add a global search page Can we add a global search page to Codidact? This would simply apply the search query site-wide. This feature is useful when you're not sure which section has the question you want. Yes, you can use a search engine with a `site:` parameter, but that does not allow applying search filters becaus... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288706 |
I wasn't aware that this was an option - this would actually take care of the problem as far as I can see! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288633 |
Sure! My thinking was that if the devs *intended* for it to be this way, it should be merely [feature-request], but if it was *unintended* it should be a [bug]. So I figured I'd add both, and someone would tell me which is wrong... Thanks!
Btw, apologies if anyone on the CD team is offended - I de... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288642 |
I'm okay with raising the bar also.
It can sometimes be annoying when it obviously should be a tag, but then you're not allowed to make them. Especially when you use an alt account for privacy (eg. sensitive/identifiable questions), and it treats you like a clueless noob when you know what you're ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288633 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Creating tags is much easier than adding description It is probably not controversial to say that if you're creating a tag, you should add a description for it. Otherwise, how will anyone else know what you intended the tag to be used for? Unfortunately, this is a challenge right now on Codidact. Creating tags is a very easy ability. I'm not sure... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282240 |
I'm not sure if the original asker is still active, so I went ahead and copied it over to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288625 . Even though I disagree with several details, I tried to not change the proposal too much. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288624 |
Not sure if bug or feature - please edit tags if you know for sure. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288624 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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"Proposals" does not show up in the bottom navbar Seems like every Codidact section appears as a link in the footer, so I was expecting the new https://proposals.codidact.com/ to appear there as well. However, it looks like it doesn't. Is this an oversight, or a deliberate choice? UX-wise, how are users expected to navigate to the proposals site,... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288325 |
Thanks @#8046! That's a great new development, I'm happy to see it was set up. I'll move this proposal over there once I have time to rewrite it to fit the proposal template. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288325 |
I find the name "workplace" terrible, and certainly wouldn't want to copy it, but I can't think of anything better. Any suggestions? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288325 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Proposal: Workplace (name suggestions welcome) I propose creating a new site to cover questions like: Dealing with situations that come up in a professional context Job application/resume/hiring/interview/career advice Similar topics covered by Workplace at StackExchange Why create this site? It is topic of high interest to a broad... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288278 |
@#8046 Well, I see your point that just because SO got that way when it became popular, doesn't mean Codidact will necessarily go that way when it gets popular.
However, why *wouldn't* it? It's a very similar site with a lot of the same users. All sorts of things used to be allowed on SO, and then... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288267 |
Thank you, both! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288278 |
This is an attractive idea but in my experience on SO/SE:
1. 1-2 downvotes usually lead to the question being summarily closed with a highly generic, unhelpful reason.
2. 3-4 downvotes usually lead to the question being deleted.
3. There are **rarely** comments offering constructive criticism. A... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288277 |
>while being ghosts to each other
So, no - because I'm not talking about filtering *users*. That would indeed not work well. In your example, people who upvote homework questions would see homework questions. People who don't upvote them wouldn't. Both groups would see non-homework questions, and ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288277 |
> choice of programming language, static vs dynamic typing, SQL vs NoSQL, desired level of abstraction
Are any of these on-topic for https://software.codidact.com/? They all seem irrelevant in that asking those things is against the rules to begin with, and I can't imagine anybody voting based on ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288267 |
There's a pending edit notice on this question, but it leads to an HTTP 500 page. Bug? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288277 |
> Votes on Codidact are not just about expressing what you like and want to see, they are indicating which posts are beneficial to the community.
This is a wonderful ideal and I fully support it. However, the fact is that most users do not use votes that way, but use them as a like/dislike button.... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288277 |
Usually, "echo chamber" is used to criticize political polarization and avoiding news that challenge one's ideology. This seems like it wouldn't be a concern on a Q&A site, where we discuss not political opinions and current events, but factual questions about politically neutral questions. What sort... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285568 |
Q&A sites in the style of this one are not expert/noob, that is a falsehood perpetrated by SE in its decline. They are peer-to-peer. Privileging "experts" (and of course, what better measure than rep, which is just a proxy for seniority on the site, right?) is not going to help the community in any w... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285568 |
I agree with this, but the most important thing is that the "real environment" is a much better showcase of both what kinds of questions would actually be asked and how much activity it would have.
As for mod effort, it would actually be even less than any other site, because there is no need to l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285576 |
It comes down to this: Who do you want more on Codidact right now, like a lot more? Would be community organizers who want to be in charge of their own Q&A site where they set the rules? Or people who want to ask and answer questions?
A site about proposals and potential questions only attracts th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285547 |
Reddit grew fast and was a well functioning community for many years, until it failed due to mismoderation and miscommercialization. So maybe it's worth considering their example after all. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285571 |
Your example seems fine to me. The asker just needs to edit it to say "how to pick a present for a sibling" which would be a perfectly valid question on interpersonal@SE. Besides, the obsession with generality is part of what killed SE (and lack of it made it take off early on) - so you can also chan... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288273 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Community proposal: Questions that don't belong anywhere else (yet) There is a lot of interest in adding sites dedicated to various topics, but codidact is not large enough to support many of these. Even on the much more active SE, there are always plenty of site stuck in "proposal hell". There is also often a lot of debate in the proposal posts between people trying... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288272 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? For many such proposals, the first things I wonder are: What specifically is wrong with the SE version of this community? What would compel people to abandon it and come here, besides principle? What will you do better that the SE version? A lot of proposal seem to be proposing identical clo... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288271 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Getting a gaming community of Codidact I think the idea generally has potential, but the specifics of the post are really undermining it. Why would anyone use this site instead of Arqade? Yes, overall SX is not good and maybe codidact could be better. But for Arqade specifically, there doesn't seem to have been that many problems. I... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288270 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Home Improvement community I agree that this is a good pool of users in SX and worth trying to attract here. Elsewhere I've defended the idea that Codidact's communities should stay few and broad for the sake of the longevity of the site. What do you think about combining it with some others, like car repair, woodworking, e... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288268 |
Also, interesting case in point here. I disagree with your answer. In fact, I think it's *objectively wrong*, because it contradicts both the site's explicit guidelines as well as well established traditions. Since I've already posted a comment, do you think it would add some value if I also downvote... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288268 |
> Say you disagree with an answer here on Meta. So you flag it to disagree.
You're assuming that you would normally downvote if you disagree. However, this is not true. Downvotes are for indicating objectively bad questions, which https://meta.codidact.com/help/voting also states. "Downvote != dis... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288269 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: CO2 balancing of schools, public authorities and households. Since Codidact appears to be open source, the best option for you would be to run a self-hosted instance of it for your project. Codidact seems focused on communities with general relevance, whereas your community would mainly appeal to a small intersection of several niche group. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288266 |
Ah yes, of course, the first response is an unexplained downvote. How ironic. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288267 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Support subjective scoring Codidact, like many other sites, relies on the wisdom of the majority. The approach has some well known flaws. One is "tyranny of the majority" which is really just a special case of "what if the majority votes wrong?" Early on communities are small and tight knit. They're obscure and a certain ty... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288266 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Are downvotes needed? Being on the receiving end of a downvote is not a good experience 99.9% of the time. The countless flavors of downvote abuse are notorious. Even for a third party, there is little value in the satisfaction of seeing an answer they dislike thoroughly downvoted, because they'd really rather not see it ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284472 |
It's not possible to meaningfully hobble bad users. You can only hobble new users. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288265 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I like the idea because these have been known issues in other places for some time. However, is it really needed? The classic justification for this is an old, obsolete answer that has hundreds of upvotes because it was correct at the time. Now better answers have been given, but first they hav... (more) |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? I don't know about eventually, but while codidact is still getting started, it's better to not splinter communities. Critical mass is make or break for communities. Getting to that critical mass is the most vital objective by far, early on. Reaching critical mass for one community is obviously eas... (more) |
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A: How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes? As Monica already explained, making the software open source does a lot to reduce the barrier to entry for competitors. This provides both an escape hatch in case codidact does end up following SX, but also is a self-breaking prophecy. The fact that it people could just host their own instance easily... (more) |
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