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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291306 |
Thank you! That wording sounds great to me. (more) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291184 |
What would be the solution if people just link-break by inserting whitespace or omitting some obvious parts of the URL? Or is that okay for new users? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
CD relies on word of mouth, so it's important to consider that before people advertise it, it must be a place they'd be comfortable showing to their friends. Ties into the being helpful vs. content quality. It's not correct to look at the site not growing, and conclude it was opened prematurely. It c... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
So in the end I think focusing on quality won't really get you quality. You'll get "okay" content but no great content. Even if you care more about having excellent content quality, it seems to me that it's still better to be permissive and focus on helping people rather than enforcing quality.
Bu... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
(...) great or bad. If the community tolerates occasional bad, you feel safe and confident in trying, and occasionally succeed in producing great. But if the community seems very intolerant of bad, it's too risky to try for great, so you play it safe and just go for "okay" - when you go for okay usua... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
That's a great point about quality being subjective. I also think so, which is why I'm on the permissive side of fence. I didn't mention it in the question because I wanted to avoid making it biased.
But ultimately yes, a lot of "quality" is a matter of personal taste. When separating terrible con... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
BTW Charlie, as a personal comment - when I first saw Codidact and was browsing around to see if the site is worth using, I liked your posts on the Great Outdoors and elsewhere. It was actually a big part of why I thought to give the site a try. Sounds like maybe we might be in the minority here on w... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
Maybe gatekeeping is not the only or even the biggest reason for the low activity, but it must be a contributor. It stands to reason that you have some baseline rate of activity on any site, and the more strict you are with what's allowed, the smaller a subset of that you will get. Perhaps a strict f... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291153 |
I think this answer does a great job of laying out the conflict and ambiguity between the different goals CD might have. I think I was trying to hint at these implicitly in my question, but you've made it clearer explicitly. Thanks!
As you say, people inevitably have a different opinion about wha... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
I get that - at first I thought your proposal could be improved by getting rid of the user/pass too, and making it just GUID. But then after this discussion, I realized just a GUID is not as good as a user/pass, so there's no point making reinventing the wheel and making it worse. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291113 |
Honestly not that much. I think one was a couple months ago. Second was this week. Not such a big number at this point, I'm speculating that when the site gets bigger it will remain at the same proportion of the userbase. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291129 |
This used to recommend, as an alternative, using just a secure ID with no password. But I realized that this has a flaw: If you leak the secure ID, there is no way to reset it. You'd have to abandon the account and make a new one. So I removed that.
If anyone is curious, the old version is in the ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
Ah, that's a good point about IDs - you can't reset them. I realize now it works for sites like Mullvad because accounts inherently have little state. As @#36377 says, a CD account is not *that* valuable, but still, it would be a bit annoying to lose access to your post history.
I do agree that we... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
Ah, I forgot about that. Is this question better moved there? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
This maxim is common on commercial sites. IQ is a bell curve so indeed most people are not very smart, and the same thing goes for knowledge and tech-literacy. Unsurprisingly, it is often more profitable to "target" (perhaps rather "grift" or "scam") a large mass of poorly informed users than a small... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291127 |
Thanks for the suggestion! I did have that thought when writing it, but gave up on it because I couldn't think of good names. Yours work great, though. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291127 |
Thank you! It was indeed an error, I edited with the fix.
Let me see if I can rewrite with names as you said. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
Honestly, what you're criticizing sounds like normal, intended behavior for people on a QA site. It's bizarre to me that one would want to run a QA site and discourage people from asking and answering questions, even denigrating that as "do-gooding". I suspect the site admins don't exactly have the s... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
Why wouldn't I? I want to see who else thinks the question was closed wrongly. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
What if you feel the mod is wrong, and should never have closed in the first place? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291113 |
That's fair. Just for me personally, if I had to explain every time, I would simply stop bothering to flag them. I don't imagine I'm the only one.
The admins are welcome to decide whether they'd prefer quantity or quality when it comes to flagging AI questions.
Once again, this question is not ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289986 |
Actually, this post has been closed as a duplicate after I flagged it. Thanks mods! (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289993 |
I think this assertion is contrary to my experience. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Are you talking about HTTP REST API or something like a Python package? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289314 |
That is some sick Markdown wizardry, man. I had no idea you could do that - really cool! (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |