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Activity for matthewsnyder
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| Comment | Post #292302 |
True - there seems to be little value in broadcasting this. The upvote is already sufficient to indicate interest. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292302 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Can you follow new answers and not just comments? On StackOverflow, you could bookmark a question, and you would get notified for answers as if you posted it yourself. This was useful when you see an unanswered question and think "yeah, I'd also like to know". I see that on Codidact there is a "follow new" button on each question. But the tooltip... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292108 |
I actually hadn't thought about this, but now I realize it makes matters worse.
Of course the logical thing is to forbid only AI crawlers. If we block search crawlers then the site will disappear from search engines, which would be bad.
However, isn't it very unlikely that major search engine o... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292108 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: What can be done to block Codidact content from getting used by crawlers/for AI training? There is no technical measure that could possibly guarantee that we won't get scraped. It comes down to symbolic gestures and hoping they will comply voluntarily. I do think we should do as many "symbolic gestures" as possible. Indicate in `robots.txt` that we don't want AI crawlers If there's ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292096 |
Thank you for confirming this, Monica!
Do you have any thoughts on my question 2? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292094 |
My bad on the comment history, you're right.
I removed that point, because I now think it doesn't really matter. Whether someone is being bad to everyone or just you, it's the same problem: A user is engaging in behavior which is bad *in aggregate* but no particular instance seems like an atrocity... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292094 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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What do you do if you think a user is stalking/harassing you in comments? Suppose you feel another user is stalking or harassing you in comments. These are of course subjective feelings, and need to be judged as per the objective facts of the matter. In this hypothetical, the objective facts you can ascertain are that: The behavior is from a single user You have sign... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291921 |
These links give a 404 for me. Are they visible to mods? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291943 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Revert edits button We can see an edit history of a post, but how do you revert to a past version? When editing a proposal, I noticed that there isn't actually a link for doing it. I can see a diff of past versions, but when I copy/paste that into a new edit, the formatting is broken. There should be a way for all... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291860 |
Thank you, Monica! That's a great description, and it would address the issue of a lack of a reopen flag if implemented. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291864 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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There should be a full moderation log visible to everyone Each site should have a page that shows the full history of all moderator actions (such as closes and deletes). This should be visible to everyone, even users who are not logged in. To protect the privacy of moderators, the names can be anonymized to something like "Moderator 1", "Moderator 2", etc. ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291860 |
I don't think we have a reopen flag. I assume that user are expected to flag "other" and put in "reopen" as the reason. That's not intuitive, though. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291860 |
There is not currently a reopen flag in the UX. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291860 |
I was actually thinking of the cases where the question can be improved with edits, but is good enough as it is and shouldn't be closed even without edits.
But your point is relevant also. Stack has a "reopen flag", which seems related. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291861 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Correct avenue to discuss a specific moderator If you notice that a specific moderator appears to be taking a lot of inappropriate actions, what are you supposed to do about it? Is there a way to "flag" moderator actions, so that if a moderator has too many flags the admins can review his conduct? Simply making a post on Meta like "matthews... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291860 |
History hidden: Detailed history before this event is hidden because of a redaction. |
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| Edit | Post #291860 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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What recourse is there for incorrect close/delete? Sometimes a moderator closes or deletes a question, but non-moderating users may see this as incorrect. Closures and deletions are unilateral moderator actions. There is no way for regular users to respond to them. If users think the moderator made a mistake, what are they supposed to do? A... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291764 |
FYI, I decided to delete the post linked in this question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291776 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: How to deal with links to commerce? >Leaving my personal judgement of Amazon apart, I would nonetheless remove the links as the prices are what is substantial to the answer, not the exact products in sale. If you remove the links, that would reduce the proposed solution to a baseless claim. Without links, I would advocate for removi... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291764 |
I wouldn't read too much into minor word choice, I typed it up in a hurry.
I posted because there was another question, asking effectively the same SSD/HDD split thing, but with a lot of additional specific requirements. I didn't want to answer for the specific case in the other question, but I fe... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291654 |
To add a supporting example: In the self-help/DIY literature, it is common to find books which have become the standard comprehensive reference/bible for that topic, but when you examine the history of how that book was written, you discover stories like:
* The author ran a QA column in a newspape... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291654 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Giving a fish vs. teaching how to fish On any Q/A site, or even analogous media like support forums, there is a dichotomy between "asking for a fish"[^1] questions and "learning to fish"[^2] questions. Teaching how to fish is usually more exciting for fishing experts. Many people consider it a more "pure" knowledge. The answers to this... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288325 |
What doesn't beat a job? 😆 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291306 |
Thank you! That wording sounds great to me. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Hexchat is not too bad if you want GUI. For console, I think irssi and weechat are the big ones. But since IRC has been around for a while there's at least a wide selection of clients, many of them on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet#IRC_clients
But the question is ab... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Good point! I think I got confused while typing the last part. I meant to ask "why".
I would love to see it changed, but it would be pointless to try to convince people to change it without understanding why they made the decision in the first place. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291285 |
Do you mean that the UX of a specific IRC client is poor, or that the protocol itself has poor UX? (more) |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291285 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Why discord and not IRC? Seems like the main option for real time chat related to Codidact is Discord. Were there any other alternatives considered? Why was Discord chosen? There are older, more established options for real time chat like IRC. In my experience, a lot of people object to Discord on principle. I believe ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291185 |
Interesting. So are you saying it's not obvious because it's easy to miss?
I meant obvious as in after a close look, everyone would agree that spam is spam, and there's not going to be controversy. Looks like your example follows this - after looking carefully at the markdown source, I'm sure that... (more) |
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