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Posts by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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 orga...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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? Unfortuna...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 findin...

5 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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/289288/2...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 LL...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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 definitio...

4 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ma...

posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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 mig...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 20d ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A "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...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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 t...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 i...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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...

posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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 o...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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,...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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, may...

posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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...

3 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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?...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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 m...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 sati...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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...

posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Where is "user last seen"? [duplicate]

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 doe...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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" ca...

posted 28d ago by matthewsnyder‭

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