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Activity for Michael
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #278008 |
Post edited: causal -> casual. Some other proofreading help. |
— | 20 days ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #278008 |
Suggested edit: causal -> casual. Some other proofreading help. (more) |
helpful | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Good question. Maybe I've just never found a decent client. I had some CLI thing I don't remember, then Firefox's IRC client (remember that?), and then WeeChat for when I need to. (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
> …without understanding why they made the decision in the first place.
[Chesterton's Fence](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence). Very good! (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Is this a "why" question, or is this a "Let's change it" attempt? You seem to be asking both things, which is awkward: Someone who can answer the "why" probably isn't excited about moving, and someone who would like to move or IRC or Matrix probably doesn't know why Discord was chosen. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
> - The UX of Discord is poor
I assert this is also true for IRC. Matrix is nice if you can find an appropriate homeserver. I agree with your other points, although I have joined the Discord. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 |
Post edited: It's not no-result searches. |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291243 |
Aha! You're right! I had just tried `q` (results) and `z` (none), but I didn't examine any further. There's a `serialization` tag, so I can't be right. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 |
Post edited: Wild speculation. Monica also found a 2-char |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Searching tags with a string with more than two characters results in a 500 I suspect it's a 500 if the search is not found in any tags. I can reproduce with a single-char search of `z` on Software. This is wild speculation, but maybe there's some item access that can't deal with a null or empty array of results. Thanks to Monica and Trichoplax's 2-char demos for putting ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291185 |
I misunderstood you, then. Carry on. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291185 |
Codidact gets a bunch of answers, especially in "Writing," that follow this pattern (annotated with footnotes):
> You can make citations by [answer-y stuff written by GPT] as found in **hxxp://example.com/how-to-[^normal]suika game[^spam]-cite-sources[^normal]**. [GPT answer continues]
[^norma... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291177 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Introduce a spam reaction? 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,[^abuse] but I suspect it is somewhat unlikely. We can also add an ability based on, say, "5 approved flags and flag-approve-rate > 75%" that enables the automat... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291173 |
Just don't HTML-encode the spaces and any number will collapse into one! :-P (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291153 |
Post edited: Make the list into a table. A couple grammar things. |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291153 |
Suggested edit: Make the list into a table. A couple grammar things. (more) |
helpful | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
This should be an answer. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291108 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Allow completely pseudonymous user accounts 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 addresses. For someone who knows how, it's fairly trivial to set up a throwaway email account which ca... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291030 |
I found the parent tag indicator after Moshi's answer. But it's still good to have the screenshot prominently in an answer. +1 (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290916 |
This would be helpful for ~~us proles~~ _[non-moderators]_ to investigate spammers. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290983 |
> Would it be better or worse if we filled it with something like "answer to (Title)"?
I think I'd prefer the "answer to `$title`" version. Easier to delete than to click back and forth another time. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291001 |
Maybe you should try the short "X" column at the end of one of your sandbox tests, with a long (wrappable) column as a middle column. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290996 |
Okay. I have a basic demo table and screenshots both ways. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290996 |
Post edited: Duelling screentshots |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290996 |
Post edited: Please excuse the edit dance to get a live screenshot. |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290996 |
Post edited: Link screenshot |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290996 |
Post edited: Specify "big ol' monitor" |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290996 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Tables break words in first column 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 Chrome 122/MacOS on a 27-inch monitor (2560 × 1440): Sample table | Element | Description | |----... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #74925 |
Post edited: Let's make it a little more emphatic. |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #74925 |
Suggested edit: Let's make it a little more emphatic. (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290793 |
Post edited: Markdown list nesting |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290793 |
Suggested edit: Markdown list nesting (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290756 |
I like the idea, but Mithical's point is important. Even the millions of dollars in the SE network haven't resulted in a `.se` for each of their communities. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #278294 |
If I were doing it, I'd patch the code to be `#{post id}-fn{id}` and `#{post id}-fnref{id}`. Easier to read than GUIDs and you probably have all the data already at your fingertips. With editable posts, I don't think GUIDs would necessarily even stay consistent. Whether you seed the GUID from the ord... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290623 |
Four questions and they were _all_ deleted? That makes me a little nervous about my new question. For all I know, I asked the same thing as one of them. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290623 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Inconsistent tagged question counts 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. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290485 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered on Dashboard 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 there's a deleted post, so I'm just assuming that's what the "updates" are. But it could be something ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288931 |
\>0 after `trim()`, maybe, to get rid of spacebar-only stuff?
There's also an argument to be made for >0 after stripping `[^[:alnum:]]` to prevent posts of `.`, but this might get weird if someone tries a _real_ post of entirely symbols and punctuation that is too clever by half. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #282698 |
For what it's worth, I think the full-column left/right background should just be white. You already know it's a before/after view, no? Then narrow the subsequent styles one step each:
- Whole paragraph with changes: **pale** green/red.
- Modified characters: **medium** green/red (plus the underl... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290419 |
How about X% and hover-text the actual minimum/maximum? Everybody understands percent. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290431 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Wilson score samples with 0 votes 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. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
Glad you're sticking around. I was a bit worried that my disagreements with your vote display scheme had soured you on the site. But I'm happy you're here. I even [quoted your blog](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290068/290085#answer-290085) before you started posting. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290326 |
_"To put it another way, the tricky problem is showing the difference between +0/-0 and +X/-X."_ Agreed. It's a problem that SO chose to obscure behind the 1000-rep click-to-see-raw-votes.
_"I'm not sure you necessarily need to use the same solution to both problems."_ That could be, but I'm going... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |