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Karl Knechtel
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See all »Codidact has been divided into 2 categories (PowerUsers/SoftwareDevelopment) No, it hasn't. It is a network of 17 communities plus the global Meta site - just like how Stack Exchange is a netw...
posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel
I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...
2 answers · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio
It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...
1 answer · posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 7mo ago by r~~
Background: the information content being presented In principle, the number of upvotes and number of downvotes on a post are two orthogonal pieces of information, that collectively tell you the c...
posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel
Such questions are accepted and encouraged, by design It's not our idea, or a new idea, either. It's fundamental to the design and concept of Q&A sites, Codidact included. People who actually...
posted 3mo ago by Karl Knechtel
Following up on Markup documentation? and What html tags can we use in posts?: I see that the site supports <section> tags in posts, and that these can have a class attribute. Recently I sa...
1 answer · posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel
I knew that blank lines are needed in certain places when mixing HTML markup with Markdown so that the Markdown will actually be processed. For example: <details> <summary> Gory deta...
1 answer · posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio
Monica already gave a good explanation of the issues with imports, so I'll focus on the other approaches described. About question selection We could just focus on the obscure questions to attr...
posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel
Should we remove such fluff? ... If we should remove fluff, should we remove all kinds of fluff? Or are there exceptions? (e.g. "emoticons are fine"). ... Does (or should) the policy depend on wh...
posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel
In the comments it was noted that a previous question points out the position of the "Copy Link" button feature in the interface, which at first seems like a natural "home" for this feature. A big...
posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel
MRE: <details> <summary>Outer</summary> Outer text <details> <summary>Inner</summary> Inner text </details> </details> Which produces: ...
1 answer · posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 9mo ago by ArtOfCode
It would be bad to prevent deleting questions by simply commenting on them, because the comments could point out why the question actually can't be salvaged from OP's perspective. Currently, commen...
posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel
While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandb...
1 answer · posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel · last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio
I use Noscript, so Javascript is blocked by default for new domains for me. As it happens, prior to today I had codidact.com (and jsdelivr.org) whitelisted, but not codidact.org. When I was writin...
1 answer · posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel · edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio
Reopening takes a while, usually a few days.... If our goal is to make it as easy as possible for experts to share knowledge, this goes against that goal. ...a lot of these questions are not that...
posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel
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