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| Edit | Post #290036 |
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| Edit | Post #290036 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
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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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289986 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 |
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| Edit | Post #289951 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 |
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| Edit | Post #289912 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 1 year 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 |
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| Edit | Post #289424 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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 | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |