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Activity for Michael
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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 2 months ago |
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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 2 months ago |
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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) |
— | 2 months ago |
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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) |
— | 3 months ago |
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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 |
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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) |
— | 5 months ago |
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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 |
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Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages 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 discovered on page 4 where I expected to see all the `git` ones that `git` itself was not listed at all!... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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Add score tooltip on list pages Can you add the Wilson Score tooltip from posts onto list pages as well? Either on the vote numbers, on the colored bar, or on both? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Probationary shadowban for new accounts 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 key quote: > > > Instead of making rules to compel crazies to behave – which can become a full-time... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Improved UI for filtering posts on score I like that idea. I imagine it something like this: ``` (0.3) ( 1 ) v v |--------|--------| (red) (green) ``` I think the full red and green segments can stay colored no matter where you drag the sliders. It'd be easier to make and about the s... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Missing "Participate" ability on one community My Outdoors profile is bugged. I don't have any Abilities awarded—not even Participate—although I have been able to make posts and suggest edits. I finally decided it was actually bugged when I tried to click the link on > ❌ You have not yet earned this ability. (more) to ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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How do I suggest edits to tags? The Edit Tags ability says > ## How do I earn this ability? > To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag wiki or the usage guidance for tags, with a hard minimum of 76 approved suggested edits (these numbers may vary from si... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Wilson score samples with 0 votes 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. chart (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Filters don't allow negative Min Score "Score" isn't net votes. It's the Wilson Score, where 0.5 is the midpoint. See Codidact's scoring help page. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Filters don't allow negative Min Score I'm trying to make a filter for "Not that negative" posts, imagining "Net score > -2," but the UI of the filter creator only lets you put in Min Score between 0 and 1, with a step size on the spinner of 0.01. ```html Min Score ``` Maybe I misunderstand what "Score" means? Is it not ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |