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Activity for Karl Knechtel
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| Suggested Edit | Post #289730 |
Suggested edit: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289722 |
Post edited: attempt to clarify this a bit more |
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| Edit | Post #289722 | Initial revision | — | 8 months 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 |
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| Edit | Post #289721 | Initial revision | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 | — | 8 months 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 |
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| Edit | Post #289600 | Initial revision | — | 9 months 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 | 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289596 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week > 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 network of (assuming I got my dev console magic right) 181 communities plus its global Meta. The scope of th... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning |
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| 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) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #289173 |
Suggested edit: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
Oh, I like that idea as well. Better to remove the redundancy. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289479 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Improved layout for individual search results Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: Example I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corresponding question on the bottom line. This is how I'm accustomed to it working from SE, and it... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289478 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Who should be able to create new tags? Automatically collect new tags for review As Codidact communities grow, I can see a need to transition smoothly from the norms of a "new" site to those with open, wide participation. Initially, people should be trusted to create new tags, but eventually there will be a need to nip them in the bud.... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289476 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Support shortcut links to Codidact communities / categories I would like to be able to write e.g. `[software.cd]` and have it generate a link to https://software.codidact.com with a friendly title. Currently, it becomes a link based on the actual text contents, surrounded by ordinary square brackets: [software.cd]. (This seems to actually check the TLD; softw... (more) |
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