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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 Should details tags work in comments?

Even if it didn't actively encourage misuse of the site, time spent on a feature like this would be far better used elsewhere. <details> tags are already sufficient to implement a "spoiler" ...

posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A How to deal with links to commerce?

Please don't use/allow links like this It's fundamentally still advertising Notwithstanding what manufacturers or retailers are suggested, and regardless of apparent intent, links like these stil...

posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Clarity for a user who has become signed out during editing

I like this idea generally, but I don't think that an unusable button should turn directly into a redirect to the login page. Instead, it should pop up a message explaining the situation, and offer...

posted 5mo 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 Syntax highlighting comments break the unsupported tags warning message

Based on the comment discussion, I can see no reason to consider support for syntax highlight hinting via HTML comments. "Code fences" have a built-in syntax highlighting suggestion and are all aro...

posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Why prefer Codidact to Stack Exchange?

Superior technology The site software supports more post types than just Q&A, and multiple Q&A sections with separate labels. This allows each community to organize content, post high-...

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 Introduce a spam reaction?

I like this idea. I'm not worried about the potential for "drama" because disruptive users already have many other tools at their disposal (such as, say, posting), and in practice this kind of disr...

posted 7mo 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 Can we streamline the process for closed bad questions?

Reopening takes a while, usually a few days.... If our goal is to make it as easy as possible for experts to share knowledge, this goes against that goal. ...a lot of these questions are not that...

posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org

I use Noscript, so Javascript is blocked by default for new domains for me. As it happens, prior to today I had codidact.com (and jsdelivr.org) whitelisted, but not codidact.org. When I was writin...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Is "voting different on Meta" for Codidact?

Stack Overflow's help section offers the following guidance for its meta site: Voting is different on meta. Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answer...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Why do we have "General comments" threads?

History Originally, comments worked much as one may have seen Somewhere Else; but in mid-2021 the threaded comments feature was introduced. Each comment thread needs a title; by default, the softw...

posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Can you post a question just to answer it yourself?

Such questions are accepted and encouraged, by design It's not our idea, or a new idea, either. It's fundamental to the design and concept of Q&A sites, Codidact included. People who actually...

posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Implement inline spoiler text

It was previously noted that Codidact does not support explicit spoiler tags, although it's possible to hide blocks of text in collapsible sections (using <details> and <summary> HTML)....

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development?

It depends what you mean by "business". Questions about the process of developing software, or "life cycle management", are on topic for Software. However, we'd want them to be from the perspectiv...

posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A How about explicitly inviting new user feedback?

Prompted by comments in this comment thread - I agree that it's often very difficult to get feedback from new users in the meta area of a community, especially one that has custom software on top o...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Jon Ericson‭

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Q&A How are tabs handled in code blocks?

While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandb...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 an...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 c...

posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 w...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&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 wh...

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

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