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| 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288273 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288272 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288271 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288270 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288269 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288266 |
Ah yes, of course, the first response is an unexplained downvote. How ironic. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288266 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
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| Edit | Post #288267 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288266 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288266 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284472 |
It's not possible to meaningfully hobble bad users. You can only hobble new users. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288265 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288264 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288262 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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