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| Edit | Post #290798 |
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| Edit | Post #290798 |
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| Edit | Post #290798 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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List all duplicates for a question on the target question's page Currently when viewing a post, there is no indication that it's being used as a duplicate target. As a curator, it's useful information to me that when I view a question, I am also informed if any other posts are linked to it as a duplicate. As such, I'd also want easy access to these posts. ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288948 |
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| Comment | Post #290770 |
> This encourages many low quality edits that are good enough to be accepted, rather than making all of the possible improvements to each post.
Small edits that only partially improve a post, are still useful and good contributions, unless the post itself is useless and worthless to Codidact. To b... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290792 |
Codidact isn't a discussion forum, so while comments _can_ be used for extended discussion, such a discussion serves little purpose to the network. Comments should be used primarily for post feedback and criticism (main categories, meta somewhat excluded). Any other useful information that arises in ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290792 |
Eh, I'm a bit confused here. By "cleaning them up", I'd assume you mean to delete comments/archive threads. But then you go on to mention voting on comments, editing, etc, etc. There's too much in this post. You'll either have to split it up (in which case existing duplicates are around), or dive dee... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290791 |
Post edited: Add relevant tags |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #290791 |
Suggested edit: Add relevant tags (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288948 |
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helpful | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290773 |
@#8082 Can each community choose entirely themselves which licenses to allow, or are they limited by a shared set? Because in that case, there can be a shared page describing all the available licenses across the Codidact network, with each site listing which ones they allow, and which ones they don'... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290775 |
Yeah, that seems like more work when all I want to do is for a double-click to take me where I am in the preview, to the source.
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| Edit | Post #290640 |
Post edited: Karl's post was very inspirational |
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| Comment | Post #290775 |
> Would a similar approach on mobile work if it were above and below rather than side by side?
Don't think so. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290775 |
@#53890 Both; which is one reason I'm in support for better layouting and functionality overall, on the editor page, but that's a separate concern. The preview exists so you can read through the post as it will be displayed, which is what I'm using it for. I often find typos when reading it, and I al... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290775 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Auto-navigate from post preview to post source I'd like to be able to double-click in a specific location in the preview of the post I'm writing (or editing), and have the site scroll up to the post source (input box), and scroll and move the cursor to the location in the source responsible for that part in the preview. It's important that a s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290773 |
Post edited: Inline link fix |
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| Edit | Post #290773 |
Post edited: Moved a paragraph for better flow. |
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| Edit | Post #290773 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How do we want to organize the help center? Right now, the help center is structured with a main landing page with sections containing lists of specific help content, with each of these contents being on specific pages (example). That's fine, and I suggest keeping the design mostly as is. However, on each specific page, the sidebar should be r... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290759 |
Maybe you as the post author wants a discussion, but nobody else does. People don’t visit Q/As for discussions, but for answers. That’s why we make them clear and isolated, and why we have strict rules, to maximise their usefulness to later visitors. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290759 |
A forum implies discussion to be a goal. Sure, we discuss the site itself on Metas, that’s one of the goals, and why we even have a tag for it here, but that’s it. There’s a big difference between Q/A and forums. Our Q/As (excluding Metas), are supposed to be direct, fluff-free, and with no discussio... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290750 |
If there are too many incentives, people will abuse the system only to get the rewards. If you’re skeptical, go see what experiences SE had with their Documentation experiment. Even then, there’s a bunch of examples of people already abusing the existing systems for rewards. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290739 |
Duplicate: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276749
Codidact already calculates a Wilson score for posts, and this score is displayed elsewhere; such as on the search page and front page. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290737 |
Already planned; see:
- https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278016/278018#answer-278018
- https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281891/281893#answer-281893 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290732 |
I think something similar has already been requested numerous times in various meta posts, as well as chat. Can you elaborate on what the problem is? It's very much clearly available on desktop, but I do agree hiding it behind the hamburger menu, as is done in the mobile view, is the wrong choice.
... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290738 |
I don't understand what you're requesting, nor what you're referring to. Please clarify. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290729 |
There's already a Q/A for this: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288266/288278 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290699 |
I guess I’ll find an answer by looking through the chat on the dev server, as I’ve seen something about this topic pop up there. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290699 |
Why not support it? Why cannot it be fixed? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290455 |
I’m strongly opposed to duplicating comments, so if that’s the solution you’d suggest, I’d wanna see some examples. But the second one sounds better. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
@#53890 You're right, and that's what I'm hinting at by the end of my post. I just find it a bit annoying when I'm met with baseless accusations delivered with such harshness. It's unconstructive, and doesn't suit this place. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
I'll elaborate: your query for links from me, is an attempt at proving me wrong, and proving the statements you put forth in the other thread, correct. As such, it makes no sense to split it up.
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
They are inherently the same. It's literally the same topic. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290648 |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
[Examples here](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/9039#comment-23025). Responses to the accusations are in a previous comment in the same thread. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
Examples where I think "General comments" is reasonable (sometimes I just don't think every comment deserves its own thread. I don't want a million threads with 1 comment in each):
- https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290638/290646#answer-290646
- https://software.codidact.com/posts/290280 (Oh, see, I... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
I also see you've chosen to completely ignore my second paragraph, where I actually attempt to argue that having such comment threads, is sometimes the best of two options. That is not sloppy. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290647 |
@#36396 If you're wondering, I kind of named this thread "General comments" on purpose, for the irony. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290648 |
See, here's an example of comment threads being in my way; you decided to split up the same thing into two different comment threads, so now we're stuck with the consequences of that.
> You can always find a few words that give some hint what the larger comment is about.
Clearly I can't, and yo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290647 |
@#36377 Huh, seems I went ahead and answered why such threads are still created, and not why they exist in the first place. You should post that as an answer. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290647 |
Might be relevant to discover an answer to why we should _not_ use "General comments: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282342
PS: sorry about the thread name... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290648 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Why do we have "General comments" threads? I'm one of the offenders, and the answer is quite simple: I often don't know what else to name it, even after several minutes of hard thinking. I want commmenting to be a task of ease, not a task of complication. In addition, there are many sorts of comments that don't actually fit very well in th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290646 |
> People who actually need an answer to a question are often in a uniquely bad position to actually ask that question.
But they are in a great position to identify the problems, and provide us information about _which_ questions we need here. One will never be able to provide good Q/A without actu... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290640 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? Of course! You will find the answer if you ask what the purpose of Codidact is. Codidact is not a helpdesk, but a knowledge repository. So yes, part of the purpose of Codidact, is to answer your own questions. Codidact is like Wikipedia, but organized in the form of answers to questions, rather th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290455 |
Post edited: Per Monica’s comment, this is not a bug, as it wasn’t built into the system in the first place. |
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