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| Comment | Post #288278 |
This is an attractive idea but in my experience on SO/SE:
1. 1-2 downvotes usually lead to the question being summarily closed with a highly generic, unhelpful reason.
2. 3-4 downvotes usually lead to the question being deleted.
3. There are **rarely** comments offering constructive criticism. A... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
>while being ghosts to each other
So, no - because I'm not talking about filtering *users*. That would indeed not work well. In your example, people who upvote homework questions would see homework questions. People who don't upvote them wouldn't. Both groups would see non-homework questions, and ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
> choice of programming language, static vs dynamic typing, SQL vs NoSQL, desired level of abstraction
Are any of these on-topic for https://software.codidact.com/? They all seem irrelevant in that asking those things is against the rules to begin with, and I can't imagine anybody voting based on ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
There's a pending edit notice on this question, but it leads to an HTTP 500 page. Bug? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
> Votes on Codidact are not just about expressing what you like and want to see, they are indicating which posts are beneficial to the community.
This is a wonderful ideal and I fully support it. However, the fact is that most users do not use votes that way, but use them as a like/dislike button.... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
Usually, "echo chamber" is used to criticize political polarization and avoiding news that challenge one's ideology. This seems like it wouldn't be a concern on a Q&A site, where we discuss not political opinions and current events, but factual questions about politically neutral questions. What sort... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
Q&A sites in the style of this one are not expert/noob, that is a falsehood perpetrated by SE in its decline. They are peer-to-peer. Privileging "experts" (and of course, what better measure than rep, which is just a proxy for seniority on the site, right?) is not going to help the community in any w... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
I agree with this, but the most important thing is that the "real environment" is a much better showcase of both what kinds of questions would actually be asked and how much activity it would have.
As for mod effort, it would actually be even less than any other site, because there is no need to l... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
It comes down to this: Who do you want more on Codidact right now, like a lot more? Would be community organizers who want to be in charge of their own Q&A site where they set the rules? Or people who want to ask and answer questions?
A site about proposals and potential questions only attracts th... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285547 |
Reddit grew fast and was a well functioning community for many years, until it failed due to mismoderation and miscommercialization. So maybe it's worth considering their example after all. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285571 |
Your example seems fine to me. The asker just needs to edit it to say "how to pick a present for a sibling" which would be a perfectly valid question on interpersonal@SE. Besides, the obsession with generality is part of what killed SE (and lack of it made it take off early on) - so you can also chan... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288273 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Community proposal: Questions that don't belong anywhere else (yet) There is a lot of interest in adding sites dedicated to various topics, but codidact is not large enough to support many of these. Even on the much more active SE, there are always plenty of site stuck in "proposal hell". There is also often a lot of debate in the proposal posts between people trying... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288272 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? For many such proposals, the first things I wonder are: What specifically is wrong with the SE version of this community? What would compel people to abandon it and come here, besides principle? What will you do better that the SE version? A lot of proposal seem to be proposing identical clo... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288271 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: Getting a gaming community of Codidact I think the idea generally has potential, but the specifics of the post are really undermining it. Why would anyone use this site instead of Arqade? Yes, overall SX is not good and maybe codidact could be better. But for Arqade specifically, there doesn't seem to have been that many problems. I... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288270 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: Home Improvement community I agree that this is a good pool of users in SX and worth trying to attract here. Elsewhere I've defended the idea that Codidact's communities should stay few and broad for the sake of the longevity of the site. What do you think about combining it with some others, like car repair, woodworking, e... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288268 |
Also, interesting case in point here. I disagree with your answer. In fact, I think it's *objectively wrong*, because it contradicts both the site's explicit guidelines as well as well established traditions. Since I've already posted a comment, do you think it would add some value if I also downvote... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288268 |
> Say you disagree with an answer here on Meta. So you flag it to disagree.
You're assuming that you would normally downvote if you disagree. However, this is not true. Downvotes are for indicating objectively bad questions, which https://meta.codidact.com/help/voting also states. "Downvote != dis... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288269 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: CO2 balancing of schools, public authorities and households. Since Codidact appears to be open source, the best option for you would be to run a self-hosted instance of it for your project. Codidact seems focused on communities with general relevance, whereas your community would mainly appeal to a small intersection of several niche group. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288266 |
Ah yes, of course, the first response is an unexplained downvote. How ironic. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288267 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Support subjective scoring Codidact, like many other sites, relies on the wisdom of the majority. The approach has some well known flaws. One is "tyranny of the majority" which is really just a special case of "what if the majority votes wrong?" Early on communities are small and tight knit. They're obscure and a certain ty... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288266 |
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| Edit | Post #288266 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Are downvotes needed? Being on the receiving end of a downvote is not a good experience 99.9% of the time. The countless flavors of downvote abuse are notorious. Even for a third party, there is little value in the satisfaction of seeing an answer they dislike thoroughly downvoted, because they'd really rather not see it ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #284472 |
It's not possible to meaningfully hobble bad users. You can only hobble new users. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288265 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I like the idea because these have been known issues in other places for some time. However, is it really needed? The classic justification for this is an old, obsolete answer that has hundreds of upvotes because it was correct at the time. Now better answers have been given, but first they hav... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288264 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? I don't know about eventually, but while codidact is still getting started, it's better to not splinter communities. Critical mass is make or break for communities. Getting to that critical mass is the most vital objective by far, early on. Reaching critical mass for one community is obviously eas... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288262 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes? As Monica already explained, making the software open-source does a lot to reduce the barrier to entry for competitors. This provides both an escape hatch in case Codidact does end up following SX, but also is a self-breaking prophecy. The fact that people could just host their own instance easily wi... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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