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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #75033 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74893 (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74929 |
@aCVn I agree (and with the hyphen, for readability). Aliases are simple additions. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74823 |
@imsodin the site isn't about existing works or about writing that fiction, though; it's about getting the science as close to right as possible when dealing with life on other worlds, FTL travel, shapeshifters, autonomous robots, etc. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75033 |
TopAnswers is doing some of this, but that doesn't mean we can't explore different approaches. How much of the content would be specific to particular languages versus general? That other site is humongous and I think that impedes forming a *community* there, so I wonder if several smaller sites wo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74998 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74808 (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74991 |
For what my small reach is worth, I gave this proposal a bit of a nudge on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonicaCellio/status/1264688391419035652. If you know people who might be interested (or people who might know people who...), please let them know about the proposal (without being spammy of cours... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74943 |
@Mithrandir24601 I've made another proposal for data import in a new answer. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75014 |
@PeterTaylor I'm not sure off-hand, but I'm confident that we can do something there, even if it's a more manual process for a handful of meta posts. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
Just in the past week I have had questions about silken tofu (vs the other kind), cooking with tempeh, adjusting a cobbler recipe for a different type of fruit, and bread. In all cases I was able to find unstructured opinions via Google, but it was like going to the elves for counsel -- they say bot... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
I think we should be open to questions about game scenarios and not just plots, *but* they will have to be scoped well to be answerable. As a GM I would want to be able to ask about monster design, creating believable NPCs, planting clues effectively, designing puzzles for the players to solve, and ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74991 |
Good job on focusing this! It sounds like a well-defined and rich-enough area to support lots of Q&A. Now we'll need to identify enough of a community to get it going (people who will be active here asking and answering questions). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74998 |
Or on codidact.com because they apply to the whole network. (I thought we'd done that, but I guess we only discussed it? Hmm.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74996 |
@KingDuken do you agree with this answer's suggestion that it's more about hardware and less about open-source specifically? Or do you see open-source as a key factor? (You can edit your proposal if you want to adjust that.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74964 |
This is a critically-important question. We need to find and attract the people and sites with reach, without being spammy. Promoting on SE where practical is good, but we need to go beyond that too. Also, when those people come to check us out, they need to find active communities -- chicken and ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74953 |
@PeterCooperJr the same division could be done with just a set of status tags, yes. I was thinking that having the two stages would make it easier to see at a glance (on the list) which proposals are in the "idea" stage and which are undergoing more active development. I admit it can be fuzzy. Par... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
@Sigma or maybe a blog category that can support both recipes and "technique" posts, with good use of tags? Or did you mean recipe requests? That could work if structured, sort of like Photo's gear recommendations. "I need a recipe for X" bad, "I need a recipe for X following these constraints" wo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74929 |
@aCVn it's long, but maybe that isn't a problem after all. I guess most people don't *type* URLs; they find them via links or search, or they've been there before, type the first few characters, and the browser offers an auto-complete. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
@Peter yes, that's a good question, and seems worthy of a broader exposure as a question in the Q&A category. We need to be able to build communities from the people *here*, and sometimes there are other communities (mailing lists, Discord servers, forums, gaming clubs, etc). My "do you know of oth... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74943 |
@Mithrandir24601 I agree that such questions can exist. I'd rather be more conservative on bulk import and then pull in additional, individual questions, which I assume will be possible (data-import is additive). I'm struggling a bit with how to do this; initially we were going to enumerate tags to... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
I am an amateur cook and, in the wake of current world events, have been doing even more cooking and have no place to ask my questions. I would participate in a cooking site if we had one. Do we have other interested participants? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74823 |
@imsodin I meant "speculative" in the sense of "speculative fiction"; I hadn't thought about conspiracy theorists (who I don't think are very science-minded in general?). Do you have suggestions for a different name? Thanks. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74934 |
@MaskedMan, Codidact is building a lot more capabilities, including other post types beyond questions and answers. We're not there yet, but rather than waiting for everything to be done before launching anything, we decided to start with what we have, which is enough for immediate needs of communiti... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74934 |
Thanks for these suggestions! Eventually we might come up with a special post type for proposals, but if we use the question for the pitch and answers to identify and resolve issues, I think the tools we have now will work. Key to this is editing in updates as things get decided in those comment th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74897 |
In every D&D campaign I've been part of, whether as player or GM, we've ended up making a lot of modifications to the rules. This will raise the question of "when is D&D not D&D any more?". I mean, *I* think we've stayed on-theme and stuck reasonably close, but if I describe house rules in the cont... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74833 |
The site is live (cc @MichaelC). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74831 |
@Acquarius_Girl the site is now live (see edit to this post). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74907 |
@Mith those are good suggestions, thanks! "Research-level Q&A" sounds like it hits the right target; I hope others will weigh in (particularly those who've used that tag on SE). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74890 |
Now that we've settled the URL, what do you want the name to be? "Photography" only (with video understood as a type of photography), or "Photography & Video"? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74836 |
What do you want to call this category? I worry that "Canonical Q&A" is a little "insider-speak". What do you think about "Library", "References", or "Resources"? Or do you prefer "Guides"? I have the impression content won't always be "basic" or "FAQ", but maybe I misunderstand. Anyway, we need... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74836 |
@mattdm 1) yes. 2) working on a "change category" UI that can be trust-restricted, but in the meantime admins can move things manually for you. (I'm guessing you're not going to have a *ton* of those in the first couple weeks, so that should be fine.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74831 |
@Aquarius_Girl it'll be announced here on Meta first, and then since it's a new site I think we should give the founders a few days to build initial content via word of mouth, and then we'll announce it on the Codidact Announcements mailing list. (We want there to be content in place when we do that... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74887 |
Are you (plural) saying that minimalism is more of a philosophy that pervades all aspects of one's life, the way some religions might? So just like you'd expect to find all your Jewish Q&A on a Judaism site, rather than food (kosher) ones on Cooking and workplace accommodations on Workplace and educ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74900 |
I think the second, too. People coming from SE might interpret a green box as "has accepted answer, no need for me to go there to help", which actually we don't know anything about that answer (and we don't have "acceptance" here). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74893 |
Welcome! We'll want to separate this into one post per proposed site to make discussion easier, but first, as Art said, we'll want to make sure we'll have users for any of these. All of these topics are rich and *should* have lots of interest; are you working with any others (whether from SE or els... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74889 |
I've added it to our "who needs what" list, thanks. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74889 |
Mathjax is on our "need soon" list for some other sites (right after we fix some issues with data import). If you don't need it on day 1 we can launch this site soon and add Mathjax support when it's ready. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74831 |
What do you want for the name and URL? (And do you happen to have a logo in mind? We can give you something basic and you can replace it later if you like, but if you already have art ready, let us know.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74866 |
@scottbb that seems doable to me, but I'll defer to @ArtOfCode. We already know we need to be able to change the category of a post (through the UI), so bulk-changing all questions in category X having tag Y *sounds* doable. (Dropping the tag in the process, presumably.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
Sounds fine to me then. It sounds like tabletop games are going to be the focus, and if there are a few questions about LARPs the community will probably accept them too. Do you know of others (whether from SE or the broader gaming world) who'd be interested in helping to build this site? (I'm in ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
To *me*, role-playing games are inherently human-mediated, because role-playing allows pretty much anything to happen. But I don't play computer games and have no idea what terminology is in use there. What I'm wondering is whether we can drop the "tabletop" from the name here (to include the live-... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74832 |
Thanks @mattdm; good to know. About how many required tags do you anticipate? (For UI considerations.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74861 |
SE has what I gather are successful sites for some other languages (German, French, Japanese...), where the sites are about the language itself. (I don't mean "SO in $language".) I don't know much about their successes and challenges, since I can't read a lot of the content. Do you have experience ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
Oh, I misunderstood too, thinking that LARPs would be off-topic as not tabletop games. I wonder if there's a term in the field for these human-mediated, broad-interpretation games as opposed to computer-mediated and thus less flexible? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74853 |
I don't know if it's related, but yesterday I was writing a post with a multi-paragraph blockquote, and the preview showed me one block per paragraph instead of one big block no matter what I did. Eventually I ran out of ideas and decided to post and then file the bug report -- and the post was fine... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74832 |
@ArtOfCode, and an "all" button or way to turn off the filter, particularly if the tags being highlighted do not collectively cover all questions. This would give the site the freedom to highlight tags they want to promote without having to make sure that every question on the site could be reached ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
Welcome! Are there any features you would need that we don't already have? I can't think of any, but for example a science site would need Mathjax, so we'd want to know that. I used to love playing RPGs (alas, time...) and I agree there are rich opportunities here. You could end up with a blog ca... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74847 |
Hi and welcome! Is minimalism something that people form broad communities around? That is, is there a "minimalist" community out there, or are there instead minimalist communities *within* other fields? I'm trying to figure out whether minimalism is a top-level concept or a movement within other ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74837 |
@mattdm somebody is actually working on templates for these blurbs now, though yours is probably going to be specialized enough that you'll need to override it. :-) But yes, the idea of a "post" page having a place to plug guidance (straight from the template, or modified for that category/site) is ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74837 |
When people ask gear-recommendation questions and get answers recommending A, B, and C, how much overlap is there in those answers with answers to *other* questions where people recommended A, B, and C? Do you want straight Q&A, or do you maybe want a library of "gear" pages (features, strengths, we... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74837 |
We can customize the guidance on the "ask question" page per-category, so you could write a blurb about what makes a good question *in Gear Recommendations* and it'd show up there. If you have more to say than fits in that chunk of UI, you can write a help topic and link to it. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |