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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289424 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289424 | Initial revision | — | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289381 | Initial revision | — | 9 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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #289296 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #289293 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289293 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #289292 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289288 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289288 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289288 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289143 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289142 | Initial revision | — | 10 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) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288633 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288633 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288633 | Initial revision | — | 11 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288624 |
Not sure if bug or feature - please edit tags if you know for sure. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288624 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
"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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288325 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
Thank you, both! (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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