Michael‭

I'm not opposed in principle, but I don't think the amount of work is likely worthwhile. I imagine this sets you up for weird bugs far into the future. One person can have any number of email ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

Can the Scoring help page's sample chart start at 0 votes instead of 1? Lots of posts probably have no votes or only up or down votes.

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

On the site, table content is often jammed all together in the first column, where the next column is happily spread out. I have made some of my tables extremely terse to accommodate. This is from ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

The Code of Conduct text on all the sites [communities] has some default text that is either supposed to be replaced by string templating or maybe customized. Emphasis in quote block below. This...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

We now have notices when a post has been flagged as spam. If I encounter a post that has such a notice and I agree, is it Still useful to flag it myself, perhaps as an endorsement, or Unnecessa...

2 answers  ·  posted 14d ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by ArtOfCode‭

This looks like it's completed now, since the image reference in my question (and the help center) points to a chart beginning with zeroes. Very helpful, thank you.

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

It's basically this post, but for the indicator discs on the Dashboard. I click on an "updated" community of interest, but most recent post showing updates was changed months ago. I can't tell if ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

celtschk says in a comment that we could show all relevant results and help the searcher by sorting those results in a useful order: Another [way] to handle it would be to order the results by h...

posted 10mo ago by Michael‭

I'm confused about the numbers in a progress-tracker for abilities. On Writing, there's a lot of spam. I've flagged a lot of spam. I have (for those who can see) 30 helpful flags. On a whim, I went...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

I'm stealing an idea from trichoplax in the comments: Disable links on posts flagged as spam. There's some potential for abuse here, too,[1] but I suspect it is somewhat unlikely. We can also add ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

"Score" isn't net votes. It's the Wilson Score, where 0.5 is the midpoint. See Codidact's scoring help page.

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

Jon Ericson takes the opposite position: find the miscreants as quickly as possible. My thinking has been heavily influenced by this philosophy of moderation written by the late Shamus Young. A ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

I use chat. All things being equal, I would prefer it not to be run by Discord. I'm not going to leave because of that preference,[1] but a community managed instance of a chat platform[2] would b...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭

I am looking for existing questions in Power User with the virtual-reality tag. The tag-search page says there are 4 questions, but clicking through to the tag page itself shows none.

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭