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| 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291185 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Introduce a spam reaction? I don't think it should be called spam. Spam, in the strict sense, is large-volume, unwanted commercial advertisement. For example, if I go to every question tagged Python and reply "Click here to get 10% off my Python course" that would be proper spam. If I go to one question asking about the fastes... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291129 |
Post edited: removed secure id option, it doesn't work |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
Ah, I forgot about that. Is this question better moved there? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291129 |
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| Edit | Post #291130 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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What mentoring is available for qpixel development? Codidact uses the open source Qpixel, which is also maintained by CD admins. Sometimes it is mentioned in passing that the devs are open to and interested in help with developing this codebase. I'm sure some contributors are resourceful enough as to simply skim the source and figure out everything... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291129 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Allow completely pseudonymous user accounts Yes, please! I think this is a great idea. Generally, I think requiring email verification is dumb. For this site it's doubly so. You did a great job enumerating all the reasons and I agree with them all. The biggest one is removing barrier to entry. Arguably the biggest problem of this site r... (more) |
— | 8 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #291127 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #291127 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? When I read through https://codidact.org/ I get the impression that the focus is on helping people get their questions answered. There are obviously other benefits, like providing a platform for people who want to share their knowledge, but the message that stands out to me most is: >This is a pla... (more) |
— | 8 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) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
Why wouldn't I? I want to see who else thinks the question was closed wrongly. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
What if you feel the mod is wrong, and should never have closed in the first place? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291121 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Can we streamline the process for closed bad questions? This is related to my other question, https://software.codidact.com/posts/291064. In that I argued we shouldn't close vague or confused questions, so that other people can post an answer if they want. The current process is that if someone closes the question, you can't answer at all. You could te... (more) |
— | 8 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) |
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| Edit | Post #291113 |
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| Edit | Post #291113 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Add new global flag reason: AI Can you please add a flag reason for "AI/LLM content"? I occasionally see people try to make some posts where they clearly just plug the question into ChatGPT and copy/pasted the response into the answer. Worse, they didn't bother reading the answer, or they would have edited out the pointless fil... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290155 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290039 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |