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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

Some thoughts: If e.g. profanity in tags is becoming an issue, that should definitely be dealt with, perhaps with a regex filter. (If a community runs into the Scunthorpe problem this way, a f...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Indicate stale reactions based on user activity

Argument against Quite simply, none of the available reactions has a clear and pressing need for such a marking. "Works for me" can be directly contradicted The only good reason to mark a "w...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 ques...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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...

5 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&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" fla...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Giving a fish vs. teaching how to fish

Varying utility I think you and I have tossed around ideas like this quite a bit already - if not between the two of us, then separately to the crowd. And I think my viewpoint hasn't changed. Per...

posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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'...

posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&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 resolu...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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