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Activity for Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #289910 |
This is a good and necessary discussion I have considered bringing up myself, and I definitely encourage filling this database of knowledge independently of what’s on SE. Obviously, there’s a fine line between «basic, but acceptable», and «too basic, and too easily accessible in the documentation», b... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> should I be forced to read some Rand who has never touched a computer opinion on it ?
If a comment is not relevant, or has no reason to be posted, it should just be deleted. Flag it for a moderator to remove it. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
@#65505 I still fail to understand why you resist using the comment section, and why you insist that the discussion chat _must be private_. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> let's say I'm talking about microchips and I want Olin's opinion, should I be forced to read some Rand who has never touched a computer opinion on it ?
Why would Olin want to engage in a private chat with you about this? He'd wanna do it openly, so everybody can benefit from what he has to say, ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> How will people figure out if X method is better than Y without argument ?
Hopefully, an answer post should contain everything necessary; if not, the comments should ask for clarifications, or give criticism of the content.
> Private chats would just facilitate that
Private chats lead to... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> Also, what's wrong with people arguing ?
Q/A is not the right format for a discussion, and questions in the Q/A format are not discussion starters. Also, when I speak of the unpleasant experiences, that is people literally fighting in the comment section. Just a few days ago, I chose to engage i... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> Not that I have anything against your opinion, but your justification made no sense because Codidact's goal is to serve the community, not profit
No, I'm saying it doesn't align with the goals of Codidact, which is, an open repository of knowledge, which also happened to, once upon a time, be th... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289767 |
You should also [update this](https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/unrestricted) to say why it was awarded. It's where I imagine most users would go first, and there's no trace of "new site" there.
Also, it's unclear if the "participate everywhere" ability is lost for users that don't fulfill the s... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289767 |
But you introduced a new typo!
> This ability allows you to post**s** 3 top-level posts
;) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289761 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability rewarded upon sign-up, to better explain exactly what plain new users have access to. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289738 |
Post edited: Rewritten for better clarity |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289738 |
Suggested edit: Rewritten for better clarity (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
@#65505 No, this is unreasonable. What Olin is describing has been a constant issue in the comment sections on Stack Overflow (and probably other SE sites), and sometimes, people do drag these arguments/fights into the SE chat. These are mostly unpleasant experiences. Even if that isn't what the auth... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289723 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286683 |
As long as the message type information is preserved for easy redesigns in the future. I do think that design risks being confusing, though. It'll look like a message header with a missing message. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289726 |
The existence of a comment thread still means it's somewhat of a noise. In addition, there is a small chance that something useful beyond the topic of a specific comment thread, is posted there. So I think [Moshi](https://meta.codidact.com/users/53196)'s [answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28972... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286683 |
The «resolved by user» comment should be visually distinct from normal comments, to clearly mark the difference between an actual comment, and a system message. Something similar to how Github/GitLab handle replies and system messages in PRs and issues, should work. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289723 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more The exchange that provoked this question, happened on one of my answers. I wrote the response to you, to acknowledge your helpful comment, and to notify you that you were indeed right. In addition to pointing out the typo in my post, you also said you were unsure about what I really meant. As suc... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289719 |
My answer may contain two misconceptions; that answers already prevent question deletion on Codidact, and that the deletion votes privilege on Stack Overflow would provide an opportunity to move an answered self-asked question into the deletion review queue. I'll update my answer if it comes to my kn... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response There are some good reasons to prevent question deletion when answers exist. There are users that believe the correct course of action is to "clean up" their instance of communication on the site, by deleting their question, once they have received an answer. This is wrong, and the system should have... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289626 |
> - Should existing links to old proposals continue to work?
> - Should the authors/followers of old proposals be notified and be given time to migrate before losing access?
> - Should there be any automatic migration?
Why should these _not_ be preserved/handled? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
Well, yeah; I think the issue with answers, really, is the way they’re sorted. There are some valid questions that aren’t too broad to be declined, yet result in numerous answers. We have optimized for finding questions, not answers, it actually seems like.
If we’re a bit creative, perhaps have a... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
> The community might decide it's better to remove or replace the language tag, collaborate on a "main" language-agnostic answer, and then add language-tagged answers with more specific examples of the syntax.
Is this actually a good use of the Q/A format? Much of the reason we use the Q/A format ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289452 |
Post edited: |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289452 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What should happen with inactive communities? A site may be effectively dead in terms of new valid contributions. That is unfortunate, and may reflect badly on the rest of the Codidact network. A user visiting Codidact for the first time, may be provided a bad first impression, if the Codidact site they visited, has been inactive for a while. In... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I believe we are describing different situations. Maybe the tags on SE EE are indeed horrible, and that the tagging system is abused by the users. I don't think that situation applies to SO. Do you have any idea why the situation is as it is on the EE site, considering that SO accomplishes good use o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
Examples: [Vulkan](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vulkan); only 1 tag, despite there existing multiple major and minor versions of it. Because of the way that Vulkan is designed, it's pointless to specify tags with version numbers. [Cocoa](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cocoa)... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 I am making the point that SO manages to handle tag creations fairly well. That's not where the issue lays; rather, the issues with tag creation can be mitigated by better tag management.
Therefore, it's important that you don't misunderstand how it works, if you are to understand my argu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 If you want an example of what it would look like to use "each part number we have in electronics" on SO, or CD's software site, that would be to tag each question with the CPU, motherboard, GPU, screen, keyboard model, mouse model, etc, for each question. That makes no sense, and we don't do... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991e No, you're exaggerating the situation on SO. We default to using tags without version numbers if the version of the framework is irrelevant. In most cases, that holds true. However, there are times when a framework may look substantially different between the major versions, or there are oth... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I’m not sure why you would say that tags on SO are only keywords, and not a way to convey semantic information. The [help page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/tagging) does say they exist for searching purposes, yes, but that’s not their only purpose. They are not meant to just describe the contents ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 They have existed [since at least 2010](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tag-synonym-process?tab=newest&page=9&pagesize=50) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 [Tag synonyms exist on SO](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I don't think there's been any problems with this on Stack Overflow, really. It's easy to rename and merge tags there, and as the scale of that site is quite large, I'd say it's a good example. I don't think the downsides of allowing everyone to create tags, at least not for a Q/A section, will ever ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Each banned tag should be a child tag of a class specifying tag; meaning, the topmost parent defines a class of tags that are associated with a help page document that explains why this specific set of tags has been banned. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Question closed | — | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
I failed to reproduce this issue again with [a test post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289413). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
Upon checking the list of tags, and filtering by "notification", it does indeed seem that those three tags are all separate from each other. So I don't know why that happened to my post. That said, It's quite peculiar to have both a "notification" and a "notifications" tag. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
It happened when I posted [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289411) question. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
[tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. Had Codidact showed me some kind of a tag wiki excerpt, I would be able to know the difference between t... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289411 |
Post edited: I don't know if e-mail notifications are relevant here, but that's not what I selected when creating this post. It showed as "notifications". |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289411 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Notifications for deleted comments in the inbox. Currently, the inbox retains notifications for comments that have since been deleted. This is unnecessary, and quite a disappointment when you're eager for a discussion, only to find that the comment you were gonna read, no longer is there. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |