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Posts by Michael‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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.

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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 ...

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

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Q&A Code of Conduct has a variable in its text

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 1mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 10d ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Abilities progress meter ahead of expected progress

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 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A User search only finds names which begin with the search term

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 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&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.

posted 11mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&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,[1] but I suspect it is somewhat unlikely. We can also add ...

posted 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&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.

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

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Q&A 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 discov...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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.

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 segm...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&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...

posted 8mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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 tr...

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

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Q&A 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 sp...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Poll for chat users and non-chat users

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 1mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Add score tooltip on list pages [duplicate]

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?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&A How do I suggest edits to tags? [duplicate]

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 guid...

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

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