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Activity for Karl Knechtel
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #290016 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
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| Edit | Post #290015 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289793 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #289744 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289743 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #289730 |
Post edited: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #289730 |
Suggested edit: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289722 |
Post edited: attempt to clarify this a bit more |
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| Edit | Post #289722 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more Suppose we have a post author A and a comment author B. Here's a simple proposal for addressing the problem. When B writes the comment, the UI offers B a checkbox to "allow A to propose resolution" to the issue. If that option was chosen, when the system notifies A about the comment, it indic... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289721 |
Post edited: |
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| Edit | Post #289721 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess was correct, and I got a comment in reply to that effect (along with the author editing the post). I... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289716 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response 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, comments are the only way that ordinary users (without at least the "vote on holds" ability) can signal a real... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289715 |
Post edited: Cross-link where I made the same point before |
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| Edit | Post #289715 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons Before I found out about the explicit closure reasons in the interface, this is the proposed set I was working on: Duplicate Description: self-explanatory. Commentary: here is still an open question about what to do with near-duplicates and "related" questions. Misplaced or off topic Des... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289687 |
Post edited: Update in light of new information; rework into separate proposals for flagging vs. closure |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289687 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog > The dialog has a header which reads "Why does this post require moderator attention?"; the options are "it's spam", "it's rude", "needs author's attention", "is a duplicate", and "other reason" ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289686 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason? I generally don't think this is a good idea. As you note, status-completed tags work fine for noting that a Meta process has run its course. If such a process has run its course - why not use the same post for post-mortem discussion? For main-space questions, if a question is about a problem that ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279429 |
I can't see any evidence of this close reason still existing. Did it get removed at some point? (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289672 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Let's improve how we handle duplicates Psychology In sum: I think the social problems here have more to do with communication than they do with policy, and I'm extremely wary of softening policy in order to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. To be fair, sometimes people should feel judged for posting a duplicate question - they clearl... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289668 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful Yes, we need to clean things up For a Q&A site to come across as useful, the chaff simply needs to be separated from the wheat. We can't expect external search engines to care about our internal quality metrics; at best we can get them to care about how many times a post is linked internally, and ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282292 |
Post edited: copy-editing to try to improve clarity and quality of English prose and remove noise |
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| Comment | Post #289600 |
It's where there would otherwise be a button that says "Ask Question", in the top-right. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289600 |
Post edited: |
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| Edit | Post #289600 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Discoverability for the new Proposals site Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Communities" in the standard page footer. (Since this footer also always lists the current community, mayb... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #282292 |
Suggested edit: copy-editing to try to improve clarity and quality of English prose and remove noise (more) |
helpful | about 1 year 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289596 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |