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Activity for Karl Knechtel
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #291345 | Initial revision | — | 14 days ago |
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A: Syntax highlighting comments break the unsupported tags warning message Based on the comment discussion, I can see no reason to consider support for syntax highlight hinting via HTML comments. "Code fences" have a built-in syntax highlighting suggestion and are all around quite practical and standard: such "fenced code blocks" are part of the CommonMark standard, and ove... (more) |
— | 14 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291331 |
Are syntax highlighting *comment hints* actually a thing? I mean - is there prior art for them, like some other site that recognizes and uses them? I'm not aware of anything like that having an effect on Stack Exchange, for example. What actually is the underlying motivation for supporting them here,... (more) |
— | 14 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291321 | Initial revision | — | 19 days ago |
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A: Why prefer Codidact to Stack Exchange? Superior technology The site software supports more post types than just Q&A, and multiple Q&A sections with separate labels. This allows each community to organize content, post high-quality information without the need to hew to the Q&A format, set up "staging" areas for questions that might ne... (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291242 |
This is marked `status-completed` now, but the bug is still [completely reproducible](https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=hax). It indeed seems to happen when there are no matching tags. The searches from the OP do work now; I guess it's now searching the entire tag description instead... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291184 |
This proposal is specifically about Markdown links. I didn't consider that URLs normally auto-link; deliberate link-breaking is certainly out of scope for what I imagined. The goal is to prevent generating actual links that either people might click on or that could affect SEO for the destination pag... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 |
Post edited: additional grammar fix |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 |
Post edited: ... Nope, seems I was wrong? This stuff is hard to see clearly in light mode |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 |
Post edited: It appears that such spans only have extra height in the preview.... |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Proposal and design for temporary blocking of new user links (anti-spam) Discussion on Introduce a spam reaction? brought up the idea of preventing new users from posting links, so as to create an additional hurdle for spammers (who will rarely make any serious attempt to integrate themselves into a community before spamming). This of course has the drawback that quest... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281546 |
Suggested edit: additional grammar fix (more) |
helpful | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291183 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Introduce a spam reaction? I like this idea. I'm not worried about the potential for "drama" because disruptive users already have many other tools at their disposal (such as, say, posting), and in practice this kind of disruption is quite rare outside of spam - even on massive sites like Stack Overflow. (Even there, nonsense ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291156 |
In that case I'm afraid I can't really imagine what you have in mind. "Voting" on closure on SE really just means getting a specific number of people to weigh in. That's part of the point: it's not a process where everyone voices an opinion either for or against up front.
I don't think that "getti... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291158 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? At last we are getting to addressing the elephant in the room head-on. Lundin and Olin's answers both capture ideas that I feel are very important, that apply to varying extents across Codidact. I'll include a couple collapsed sections of background, and then present a proposal. There are fund... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291156 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Can we streamline the process for closed bad questions? > 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 important - especially the ones that end up closed. They're small, simple things... I'm not going to cr... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290956 |
At any rate, it's probably appropriate to close this as no-repro.... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290956 |
I see it in the same menu, after the `cloudflareinsights.com` entry. You should too after trusting `codidact.com`. However, I am no longer reproducing the rest of the bug: while `codidact.com` JavaScript is still required to make the widget work (as I would expect), `codidact.org` JavaScript is not. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290951 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org 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 writing my previous Meta post just now, I found that the tag search/auto-completion (at the bottom of ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290950 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Is "voting different on Meta" for Codidact? Stack Overflow's help section offers the following guidance for its meta site: > ### Voting is different on meta. > > Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answers. For most posts, votes reflect the perceived usefulness: well-written, well-reasoned, well-... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290080 |
> On the other hand, could there be an open-source spam- and troll- (and low-quality post)-filter, which still works in spite of being open source?
Even if the code for such a system is open source, its heuristics have to come from somewhere - and they're dramatically less useful if there isn't a ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290680 |
If by "draft mechanism" you mean the feature by which posts are auto-saved and there's also a manual "save draft" button, I strongly doubt that people are seeing that as a way to store "not yet ready" questions longish-term while polishing them - it comes across as a recovery mechanism in case one's ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290676 |
I think it stands to reason, If you can close your own question unilaterally without Vote on Holds, you should be able to reopen it unilaterally as well - unless the community is *also* trying to keep the question closed. I think of it as two separate statuses: "closed by OP" and "closed by the commu... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290646 |
Agreed; letting the unskilled ask their questions is one of the best ways to discover what information is most useful to the masses - as well as *why* they are confused about whatever commonly confuses them.
However, once that discovery is done, it's time to establish the best possible version of ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290662 |
Post edited: Expand information and use some nicer formatting |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290649 |
I think you and Andreas both have good points here - it can be difficult to title threads usefully, but it's something we should all strive for. But I get the sense that trichoplax intends to have a reference Q&A for any *future* discussions asking people to use better thread titles. For example, if ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290662 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Why do we have "General comments" threads? History Originally, comments worked much as one may have seen Somewhere Else; but in mid-2021 the threaded comments feature was introduced. Each comment thread needs a title; by default, the software uses the first part of the first comment. It wouldn't make sense for existing comments to be al... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289668 |
See also [my own Meta Q&A](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289687) for some thoughts about reasons for *closing* questions - which are fairly closely related.
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290646 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? 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 need an answer to a question are often in a uniquely bad position to actually ask that question. Out of... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287638 |
I just stumbled upon this issue today. I also found that, even in the thread-specific view, the "flag" option only allows for a custom flag reason, and doesn't offer any radio-button options. Since it's likely that abusive users would leave rude comments or spam in the comments - especially since we ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290419 |
Numbers that can change are visually distracting, so that should only happen when it's important (at the beginning and end of the limits). Otherwise, how about showing a bar that fills to indicate the percentage? I imagine a value that counts up to the minimum quota, is replaced by a shaded bar that ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290417 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Implement inline spoiler text It was previously noted that Codidact does not support explicit spoiler tags, although it's possible to hide blocks of text in collapsible sections (using `` and `` HTML). I'd like to propose adding explicit support for inline spoiler text. Just as preformatted code blocks don't always suffice and... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290406 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development? It depends what you mean by "business". Questions about the process of developing software, or "life cycle management", are on topic for Software. However, we'd want them to be from the perspective of a team lead, rather than a manager. So, not e.g. questions about the psychology of getting softwa... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290405 |
Post edited: No need to highlight Lundin's comment specifically. |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290405 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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How about explicitly inviting new user feedback? Prompted by comments in this comment thread - I agree that it's often very difficult to get feedback from new users in the meta area of a community, especially one that has custom software on top of a particular culture. Relatively few people will go out of their way to raise their voices, and those ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290404 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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How are tabs handled in code blocks? 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 "sandbox" post. I'm planning to write some canonical Q&A about `IndentationError`s in Python for the Softwa... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
I don't at all think it's rude to come in and start criticizing - on the contrary, I think many communities are harmed by resistance to useful critique. However, there are a lot of unrelated points being made here, and many of them are covered by existing meta Q&A. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290349 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |