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Activity for Karl Knechtel
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | 25 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 2 months 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 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290956 |
At any rate, it's probably appropriate to close this as no-repro.... (more) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 4 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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— | 4 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) |
— | 4 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 |
| 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) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290312 |
Another idea for the graphical widget here would be to just copy the red/green bars that are used in post listings - but instead of showing +/- values below that bar, just show the total votes, labelled as such. Alternately, if something like this circle wedge makes sense here, it would also make sen... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
The graphic design here doesn't make the shading very obvious, in my opinion. In particular, I think a blurred edge or gradient fill is counterproductive - if the intent was to convey the level of certainty in the Score (i.e., something related to the number of votes informing it), it definitely fail... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #276750 |
Once the numbers get larger, mental arithmetic is not so easy. Of course, one can get a *rough* idea at a glance. However, I think that the "net score" is not actually that useful, and that it's a trap for people to try to compute it - a trap that is baited by putting the `+` and `-` symbols in the U... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #276753 |
While I'm quite strongly opposed to the presentation described here - even a rounded, "out of 100" score value is harder to interpret than it needs to be - I think you made a very salient point about how the upvote and downvote tallies convert to quality and interest metrics. I think of this as somet... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #276751 |
I was inspired by this idea, but I think it loses too much information as described. I don't think it's too much to show an analog quantity such as Wilson score in an analog way, as long as it's presented graphically rather than numerically. For example, with a shape whose size and/or colour varies s... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290268 |
I'm inclined to agree, but since I noticed the difference I felt it would be worthwhile to ask.
As regards redaction, I anticipate that people will abuse it regardless, and in the future moderators will not have the resources to police that sort of thing. It may become necessary to restrict that p... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
A 1080p display is 1920x1080 pixels; at 32-bit colour it takes almost 8 megabytes to store that. Many contemporary displays have better resolution than that, and cameras on even fairly outdated phones can take pictures at much higher resolution. If an image is merely "larger than 2 MB", that could ea... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290080 |
Might I at least ask what the name means / what the acronym stands for? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290080 |
"The Codidact Team does have some stronger tools available, such as STAT" - could you please elaborate on what this tool is and how it works? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290068 |
I think this idea is quite ill-considered for many reasons, even though I sympathize with the underlying motivation. I think it's important for the long run to have a discussion about ways to preempt bad content and/or troublesome users, but that should be framed as a discussion without focusing on a... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290063 |
I'm seeing all the same things, specifically on Outdoors (and not on communities such as Writing where I have not yet participated). (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
@#64277 My real concern is only about "canonical" questions - i.e. ones that are relatively important to the site, because they can preempt beginners' issues and close a lot of duplicates. If the question is moved into a new category, but can still be used to close duplicates in the main Q&A, presuma... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290052 |
@#64277 Flagged as a duplicate of what, exactly? I found https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288633 which is related, but I'm not sure.... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289990 |
I'm inclined to agree that the research-documenting approach leads to too much chatter. While it makes sense *initially* to ascertain what the question really is, *in the long run* the shorter version is clearly better. Questions should ideally only contain what readers need in order to be confident ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290006 |
Another option is to write your own answer, in which you reject your own initial suggestion and propose the edit notification scheme instead (with at least a sketch of how it could work). (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288239 |
I asked https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289387 https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289687 which are along the same lines as this feature request. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
Some reasons why someone might be personally invested in replicating a Stack Overflow question here (yes, all of them apply to me :) ):
* It's not actually clear which version of the question on Stack Overflow is "canonical"; there might be multiple highly-voted versions of essentially the same qu... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289991 |
"Differentiating questions and answers by vote score does help" - only to the extent that search actually takes it into consideration. This is especially problematic for external search engines, which have no reason to know what our own ranking system means and will use their own metrics (such as inb... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
This seems to be a consequence of the browser's semantics differing from the ones intended in context. Presumably, the real rule is that the field contents get saved when it *loses focus*, which would also happen when the tab (or even the entire window, or browser) is closed directly. I imagine it wo... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
Yes, but I hadn't read it quite carefully enough. That said, it still doesn't offer quite the level of detail I was hoping for. I might try to be more precise about this in a separate post, once it bothers me enough again. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #279429 |
I can see that the question you linked is closed that way, but I don't see anything corresponding in the flag interface. This relates to [my recent post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289687), naturally. Regardless of what the actual close reasons are, it seems appropriate that the flagging interfa... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
I do have that in mind, wasn't really sure how to phrase it - especially since others might have novel ideas about different statuses a post could have besides "closed". (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
As a separate matter, I would more generally appreciate it if the "abilities" interface were more explicit and forthcoming about what people with a particular ability can do, and how things look different for them on the site. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #279429 |
I can't see any evidence of this close reason still existing. Did it get removed at some point? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289585 |
Please do not edit posts to offer a fundamentally different opinion, and especially please do not use the edit redaction feature to hide old versions when doing so. The purpose of redaction is to avoid leaking private information (e.g. if someone posts a private API key or login credentials in a code... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
It's where there would otherwise be a button that says "Ask Question", in the top-right. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289476 |
As a stop-gap to avoid the issue of `software.cd` being an invalid link: the link can be broken by adding an empty, semantically useless HTML tag after the period - for example, `software.<a/>cd` produces software.<a/>cd. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
To be totally blunt, OP: if you are coming up with phrases like "which to me makes no sense while your community is already scattered to the cosmic winds.", then your grasp of English is **perfectly good enough** for writing on a Q&A site. I can't take "this isn't my first language" seriously as an e... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
Well, of course the community might also decide things that are different from what I imagine :) But if fundamentally the same question comes up in multiple contexts, I would rather be able to reuse an explanation as far as it actually suits - much as I would prefer to be able to reuse code. Logic is... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289569 |
What exactly do you mean by a "Hyde account"? I think this answer would be much clearer explicitly spelling that out. (I assume this is a [literary reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde), but in my experience it's much better to be explicit and not metaphorica... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289470 |
Of course, we have an easy way to quantify "close to 50/50" and "majority": by setting a threshold in terms of the Wilson score already used for sorting. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
Oh, I like that idea as well. Better to remove the redundancy. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289350 |
I thought everyone could already make new tags by just... typing in a not-yet-existing tag and applying it to a new post. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289147 |
It really shouldn't be a sort - that just makes no sense. "Native" for posts is a binary property. First off, you can really only partition by that, not properly sort. Second, someone who chooses this option is probably only interested in native posts - possibly interested only in imported posts, but... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289340 |
[Relevant](https://software.codidact.com/posts/289253) re "If a community considers them poor form, the community can probably discourage them in the same ways it encourages or discourages other behaviors.". (more) |
— | 9 months ago |