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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #278493 |
I'm not convinced it's a good idea to advertise when somebody last visited the site. It feels kind of stalkerish. You can't tell when somebody else last looked at Twitter or Reddit or (AFAIK) Facebook, for instance. When somebody last *took an action* is public information, but just browsing feels... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
@Lundin we probably need some tag-referencing syntax that includes the set name. Gotta think about this. Aside from meta being its own thing we don't expect a lot of diverse tag sets, but we'll have to see what communities want to build. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278501 |
This is an interesting idea to talk about, but is a little beyond what preferences are needed. We've talked informally about customized views, filters, etc and I want to come back to that later. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278498 |
We can also change the default for the category on Outdoors (for new posts) if the Outdoors community requests it. Probably nobody thought about it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278496 |
@1muflon1 we're going to be revising reputation, actually -- see [coming soon: abilities and changes to reputation](https://meta.codidact.com/articles/278234). We do have data import (so people can bring in Q&A from SE) but it's a little fragile and we want to make changes before doing more of that... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278496 |
@1muflon1 glad to have you! I suspected from your scope answer that you had some decent background in the field. :-) We do not see Codidact and SE as a zero-sum game; the platforms and the communities emphasize different things, and it's quite fine to participate on both. Our Judaism community ge... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278491 |
Thanks for these additions -- very helpful! This looks like a good starting point for other economics experts to weigh in on. (Oh, that reminds me -- "survey of interest" post coming right up.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
@Moshi a community can have multiple tag sets. A category within a community must use exactly one tag set. Tag sets contain only tags; they cannot contain other tag sets. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278490 |
No worries @Moshi; having one place to collect it is handy, and if something *has* been brought up elsewhere (or it's big enough to call for a separate discussion), it can just be linked. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
Tag sets are per-community, yes. Every community has two tag sets to start, called Main and Meta. Most of our communities that have other categories are using Main on them. Meta doesn't have meta but both Blog and Site Proposals have their own tag sets. Note that tag names are unique within tag s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
Interesting edge case -- *technically* tags *aren't* per-category but, rather, tags are part of a tag set and each category uses a tag set, *which can be shared*. So, for example, if Software Dev had a Code Review category and it used the same tag set as Q&A, then we'd probably highlight that JavaSc... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278491 |
Thank you; this is helpful input. Would you perhaps be able to propose a high-level scope description -- what topics *should* be on-topic, as opposed to what shouldn't be? How do expert economists (of which set I am not a member) frame things? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278487 |
@OlinLathrop actually no; if you started to edit a post, then your choices are your edit state or nothing, but "go back to the way it was before I touched it" isn't an option unless you copy it out of the post history. (Or open it in an incognito window, or probably other things we shouldn't make pe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
@Dani I don't actually know what it's called, no. I just picked some words that seemed descriptive. :-) I've created a GitHub issue for this problem and somebody has already volunteered to work on it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278487 |
I would think that "cancel" should mean "throw away my draft". But I see it doesn't currently; it just cancels the *session* while preserving the state. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
Thanks for the edit! I see it now. Just missing the header block with the title/link and score there, it looks like. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276854 |
Sorry for the delayed status tag. This got fixed some time in the past (not sure when) but we failed to update here. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278077 |
Well, it hasn't been *answered* before; it's an outstanding bug. But there's another bug report for this so I'm linking them together. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278004 |
We made some RTL-related fixes and I'm not seeing this any more, but I don't know if we (think we) fixed this. Are you still seeing it? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278406 |
Yeah, if it's not visible from the start, we can't expect people to know about it. I see now -- this specific example is just short enough that the horizontal scroll is evident for me. But on https://software.codidact.com/questions/277881 the code block is longer and the scroll doesn't appear from ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278412 |
@Moshi syntax highlighting is only enabled for communities where we expect code, because (like Mathjax) it adds some rendering time to every post and we don't want to slow down sites that wouldn't benefit. Sorry about your edge case; it's certainly reasonable to ask on Meta about the syntax highligh... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278406 |
Thanks for the screenshot. I'm not seeing it in Firefox 79.0 (or Chrome 84.0) but don't have ESR handy. There should definitely be a horizontal scrollbar there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278404 |
This would be controlled per-community, yes. A community that doesn't want imports wouldn't have to allow them, but some communities *do* want imports and this would let them have them. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
@Lundin not as part of the import process, no. But once the post is here, people can edit to merge answers, preserving attribution. This would be a good use case for the "community wiki" proposal, too, as it's truly a combined effort that no one person gets "credit" for. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278396 |
Oh, good point. I said that because the license doesn't require importing the entire edit history. And maybe we don't want to recreate the full edit history here, but for imported posts we could include the original edit history as a link in the post history. That way the information is available ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
@Lundin agreed; people need to be judicious in using the tool. Sometimes some of the answers are good (or good starting points for edits) and others should be deleted, which the community could do here but can't do there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278391 |
Another use case: [resources on Languages & Linguistics](https://languages.codidact.com/categories/40). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278387 |
Our planned workflow for duplicates is: anyone can propose a duplicate; if the author agrees it's marked (done); otherwise the author is invited to edit or can dispute the duplicate suggestion (this has nothing to do with that). So yes, an author who finds or agrees with a dupe target can just go ah... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
@manassehkatz I considered adding that (specifically if there've been no edits). I don't know how much that complicates the implementation (don't count this post for abilities, no do again / move it over to System, no move it back). Maybe only change ownership once there *is* an edit and the rest is... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
@Lundin on your last point, that's what I had in mind with setting the System user as the owner (in my "to be determined" paragraph). I don't know if there are better ways, but that's *a* way. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
We don't have it yet. An "anyone can edit" option for the author is something I'd like to see us do. ("Anyone" to be further clarified; probably means anyone who's gained the Participate Generally ability?) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278304 |
We don't yet have the ability to lock posts, so if you edit that back in again we will have to delete the post again. Please find more appropriate ways to express yourself, and please stop pretending to be someone other than the author of the question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278330 |
Huh, weird -- but not here on Meta. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278290 |
Not only *can* that mechanism be used for gathering feedback, but it *has* been -- at least the review panel, I know. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278283 |
There have been a few cases of employees with no other activity on a site (i.e. they can only downvote because of their status) downvoting community ads, but I'm not aware of them outright deleting any yet. I haven't been tracking edits to posts like the ones you're talking about, but if those posts... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278282 |
@Mithical plus all the *other* challenges that come with paying people, conflicts of interest, resulting strife... Someday the Codidact project might have both the need and the means to hire people for certain roles (I'm guessing a role that keeps the servers running and happy would top the list), th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277092 |
Oh wow. That missing sidebar is where the core of the tour -- that is, the explanations and instructions -- goes. A tour without that would be pretty cryptic. Is that still happening? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278236 |
Saving the post as a draft in case the tour-taker wrote a real question is a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278225 |
@ArtOfCode I ran into this on some community metas recently when adding the missing basic tags (like support). I couldn't characterize it at the time, so while I might have mentioned it in chat I didn't do anything more -- figured maybe it was a fluke. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277157 |
Reproduced the reappearance of this bug today. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278162 |
Comments are getting reworked (design work is happening now) and will be threaded. With the ability to separate threads (after people learn to reply instead of just adding to the end), comments will be more organized. With threading, I don't know if comments "rising to the top" still makes sense. I'd... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278132 |
Are you having problems with all uploads or just this one (or is this the only one you've tried so far)? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277007 |
@DerekElkins [launched](https://math.codidact.com/questions/278124) (in case you didn't see). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277007 |
@8063 [launched](https://math.codidact.com/questions/278124) (in case you didn't see). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277007 |
@JoshuaTS [launched](https://math.codidact.com/questions/278124) (in case you didn't see). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277007 |
@PeterTaylor [launched](https://math.codidact.com/questions/278124) (in case you didn't see). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278110 |
I agree with both of you: communities should be able to set the norms that work for them, *and* these norms need to be communicated clearly so people don't stumble over the differences. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278086 |
@aCVn categories could change that, yes. But, fundamentally, the groups have enough important differences that I suspect they shouldn't share common infrastructure like reputation/abilities and a single meta. Federated communities like with my vague SoftwareDev subcommunities might work better. But... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278074 |
I understand (some stuff about) web client code in the abstract. I think there's room to learn something from that question even if I'm not a C++ programmer. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278050 |
Yeah, I'm not trying to play a *reductio ad absurdum* card; I'm just trying to tease out whether it's a small number of arbitrary links (and roughly how many), or whether it's "support more specific sites beyond Twitter and one free link". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |