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Activity for Andreas demands justice for humanity
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289452 |
Post edited: |
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| Edit | Post #289452 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 [Tag synonyms exist on SO](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms). (more) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Question closed | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
I failed to reproduce this issue again with [a test post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289413). (more) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
It happened when I posted [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289411) question. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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". |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289411 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289410 |
Due to the example given, I am worried that it's been considered to restrict questions on Software.CD to specific languages. Is this the case, or has this come up on another related site? (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
I'm not sure what the point is about that. I think a slightly larger limit suffices. Introducing a new privilege for this seems unneeded to me. And I'm not sure why one would ever need 20 tags. At that point, I'd say there's probably something that's gone wrong, and a discussion on Meta is best. Actu... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39469 |
Post edited: Grammatical cleanups |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #39469 |
Suggested edit: Grammatical cleanups (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
- Mass creation of new tags.
- Extra server load (this should be handled by the server anyway, similar to max post length, and other basic defenses against malicious usage).
- Abusing tags for visibility
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289368 |
I'm not entirely convinced that a limit on the number of tags, is the best way to counter these problems. Generic tags, as well as company name tags, shouldn't exist in the first place, and they can still be created by just omitting other kind of tags. These tags should be deleted and banned once the... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289364 |
Somewhere Else stacks them twice; first horizontally, then vertically. That seems perfect to me, unless we’re permitting 20+ tags. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288761 |
on SE (mainly, MSO and MSE), I have regularly upvoted both comments stating something, and comments disagreeing with them, because I think that they are both useful, bring up an important discussion, and both present important and valid viewpoints. I have even done so for a discussion between 2+ peop... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289366 |
Post edited: |
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| Comment | Post #289364 |
Why is there a limit on 5 tags in the first place? Is it to prevent cluttering? Technical reasons? Was it as simple as a pragmatic choice by the programmer? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289366 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289366 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Assessing the 5 tag limit Such a tag limit seems low to me, though I can't think of any specific cases in which more than 5 tags would apply. However, I'm not sure what the use in limiting this upfront is; I'm not sure it solves any problems that aren't better addressed in other ways. In case there actually is a need for more... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276584 |
Has there been any progress as to establishing Codidact as an organization? If not, why not?
(more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
@mrTsjolder My understanding is that this can be satisfied by first downloading all the licenses with one request, then let subsequent requests just refer to one of the licenses already downloaded. Is that wrong to assume? (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
2. Where is a license required?
- every time any licensed content is included in a response?
- No; document that certain content is under a license (that said, isn't everything under a license (does Codidact not have a license for its content?). Why would you want to process license data ever... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I don’t think you need to address question 1 upfront, if you go with the idea of using an ID or index. Doesn’t Codidact only permit a predefined set of licenses anyway? So each time Codidact accepts a new license, assign a new ID to it, or add it to the list of licenses, and use its index.
If you... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Simple idea:
```
class Post {
long id;
byte license;
List<Comment> comments;
List<Revision> revisions;
}
class Revision {
long authorID;
String text;
List<String> tags;
Date date;
int index; // in case certain revisions are omitted
}
class Comm... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I'm not sure if I see a need _not_ to include the license with all content; this can be as simple (and small) as a single byte, which is an ID of a predefined license, or an index into a table of licenses. So, this data is very small, and can be transmitted regardless of how the content is requested.... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74961 |
If an issue is a combination of bugs, bad UX, and/or incomplete programming, how should that case be handled? I could post all on one site, or struggle with distributing it on both sides, which is neither optimal. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |