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Activity for Karl Knechtel
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How can I fix or edit comment thread titles? It happens to me all the time that I write a comment - as the first of a new thread of comments - and then either overlook giving it a title, or expect that the default title will be good enough and am then dissatisfied with the result. Is there any way to edit the title of a comment thread, as th... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290312 |
Post edited: add thoughts about shading to indicate popularity graphically instead of (just) numerically |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #290312 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes? 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 community's overall opinion of the content (or at least, of those who voted). Traditional systems (l... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290260 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Grace period for immediately noticed small errors Sometimes I will compose a lengthy post, submit it, see it in context and immediately notice a typo - no matter how careful I thought I was being. I'm not sure it's desirable that, when I go to fix it immediately, the revision is recorded in the post's history. I could of course use the Redact fea... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290143 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard I think it's important to discuss this, but I'm mildly against the proposal as it stands. In principle I like removing redundancy, but it does serve some purpose here. It seems awkward to have that much framing text when simply trying to check one's own abilities, and weird to see information specifi... (more) |
— | 7 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 |
| Edit | Post #290122 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Probationary shadowban for new accounts If it's possible to characterize the problem as being caused by "That Guy" - i.e., a singular person behind it all - then unless the problem involves a botnet or something, it's small enough that we shouldn't need to come up with new technical solutions just because that problem user exists. To me, t... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290017 |
Post edited: Add headers and some other formatting; fix typo |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #290036 |
Post edited: Misc copyediting for grammar and to improve clarity |
— | 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 |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290036 |
Suggested edit: Misc copyediting for grammar and to improve clarity (more) |
helpful | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290030 |
Post edited: avoid creating bogus link |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #290054 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Improved UI for filtering posts on score Inspired by the confusion in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290048 , I'd like to propose a UI enhancement. Using a spinner for this value doesn't make a lot of sense, since the user needs to think about what the value means, and that value is somewhat abstract. It takes considerable experience (or a... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290030 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts? > 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 which community (i.e. which subsite of codidact.com) the post belongs to? In principle, I think that - ... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290017 |
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— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290017 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow 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 attract mainly expert users. Once the site is a healthy community for questions by experts for experts, ... (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 |
| Edit | Post #290016 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? Users vs. questions Personally, I don't care much, if at all, about the motivation behind a question - as long as it isn't a thinly veiled rant or other sort of soapboxing (i.e. is genuinely a question). On Stack Overflow meta I would say that questions are 100% about the questions in themselves a... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290015 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? > It's common to hear comments about QA sites being "cluttered", "clogged", "spammed" etc. Even disregarding advertising / off-topic astroturfing etc. (the sort of thing that the "It's spam" flag is intended for), I think that "spammed" has a subtly, but fundamentally different meaning from "clut... (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 |
| Edit | Post #289793 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it 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 fixes to be answerable, and thought that I might not be able to get to it for a while, so I opted to use thi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289744 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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How should we approach non-English content? 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 policy actually requiring this. I've noticed that a fair amount of friction has already occurred - especially ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289743 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers By my understanding, one of the key features of the Codidact network is that individual communities are more in control of their local policies. In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289730 |
Post edited: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title |
— | 8 months ago |