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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #285416 |
I, too, use the dashboard as my entry point, so I can see where there's new activity. (Ok, I also keep tabs open to a couple communities, including Meta, 'cause I'm here a lot.) If you could control the order of communities in the network profile, and if the profile showed an indicator for any new ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285401 |
Search is, in a sense, one-shot filters. The distinction I'm making in my head is between one-off queries and ongoing filtering. Both are search under the hood, logically speaking. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285402 |
Oh, directly going to the "success" link doesn't work for me either (404). I assume that's because I didn't come from the donation workflow. (We should make that more resilient, I agree.) What I meant was that when I went through the donation workflow and got to this step, I got a correctly-render... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285374 |
@#8049 another answer suggests being able to choose, when creating/editing a filter, whether it's local or global. This seems a good approach to me, especially if we couple it with some sort of preconditions so a question-based filter won't be selectable on the blog, for example. We'll need to work... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285401 |
Now that you mention it, search results are another kind of post list, so it seems like we ought to be able to apply filters there too. And if we don't get it "for free", we should take the extra steps to add it there.
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285370 |
Interesting idea, thanks! Possibly a first step is to give people a way to make a filter public combined with a way for others to use someone's public filter, so I can choose "trichoplax's unanswered" filter or some such. I don't know if we want to add all public filters into a global dropdown lis... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285374 |
That's a good point. Not all filters would work in all contexts, so I guess that list you can choose from needs to gray out the ones with conditions that don't apply (for example, anything involving questions/answers on the Meta blog or Code Golf sandbox). For the case of the same tag on different ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285338 |
We needed a way to link the posts together so that people could claim the account in the future. The easiest path to that seemed to be to create a stub user account, make it clear it's a stub and not a real person yet, and give the real person a way to say "that's me" and take over ownership.
I d... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285337 |
@#53391 oh, good point. Yeah, that wouldn't be very helpful, and I think the other answers already cover that. I think it's probably still useful to have something here for the special case of your own work (it's come up before), so I'll make an edit to cast this more as a sub-answer. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285288 |
As much as possible, we want formal interactions to happen on-site (even if they also send email). Warnings are logged with the profile and moderators have access to them, which is helpful when deciding how to respond to a new problem. (Have we warned or suspended before for this?) Similarly (from... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277432 |
Does your browser show the name on mouse-over? That's how I navigate among tabs with the same favicon, whether different communities here, different pages from the same site/community that would have the same favicon anyway (questions, dashboard, etc here), and tabs where the favicon is unclear or mi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277432 |
A favicon is the little image that appears in the browser tab. I added a link to the question. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285279 |
Thanks for the feedback. I apologize for misunderstanding your question. If you prefer, I can reopen it and you can add the help link as an answer. Or feel free to edit that link into the answer on the other question. The important thing is to connect people with the info they seek; I'm not fussy... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285279 |
The question I just marked this as a duplicate of covers the same territory, so even if it's not exactly your question, I think it's a match. If you disagree, please let us know. Bottom line: *your* work is always fair game, but you might need to recast a question in your own words to bring in an a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285246 |
No worries -- duplicates aren't a badge of shame or anything, just consolidation. I'll go ahead and mark it, so we'll know it doesn't need a new GitHub issue to track it. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285247 |
I'm actually getting ready to take a stab at a spec for a real filtering mechanism, so the tabs would be *sorts* (like age and score) while the filters would be *filters*. Instead of trying to jam more buttons in there when we know we're going to want more filters than just this, let's build filters... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285246 |
This question is broader but includes a request for a network profile: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279409. On the other hand, that one having two status tags (because it asked for two things, one of which is implemented) could be confusing. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285227 |
Clarified in an edit. I just meant that we don't need to have the auditing block author edits when no one else is involved, if that would make this easier to do. If it's easy to add the auto-comment, then we don't need to worry about staging it like this. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285221 |
What do you think about the suggestion in [this answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285216/285219#answer-285219) of having a toggle? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285216 |
Thanks for the reminder; I had forgotten about that post. I think as a practical matter we should think in terms of a filter rather than a category; in addition to the category code not currently being designed for more fluid movement like this, a community can have more than one Q&A category and ha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 if the community already has a meta consensus about that type of question, please flag to ask a moderator to delete it. (If there's any context the mod might need to make that connection, best to mention it. Like, if a science community had a rule against certain types of sources, mentionin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 I meant that any community can decide, via discussion on its meta, that such-and-such types of posts (whatever applies there) should be deleted, and they could implement that independently of anything else we do. I.e. they don't _need_ an automated system, though automation would make it eas... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285199 |
Moderators can suspend or revoke individual abilities for any user. This level of granularity in suspensions is probably new to most people, so perhaps we need to make it more widely known? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
Regardless of any general mechanism or rules, each community is free to decide on its own what content should be deleted. When there's a community consensus, people could flag for mods to delete until there's something better. Anybody can _flag_, so we don't have to place the whole curation burden ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
Oh yes, I remember that -- from the very early days, before we decided to improve QPixel (the Ruby code) instead of starting over. Somebody on the team came across that and shared it; as far as I know, none of us were involved (or know those folks). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
I had Ars Technica in mind when I wrote that (and *almost* named them). I don't have any contacts there; I hope someone else knows a way in. And I agree that we need to make things more appealing for visitors who come in response to such an article. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
Thanks for this thoughtful analysis! I agree with a lot of what you say here. You mentioned that the qpixel code makes you want to learn Ruby; just as an FYI, a couple of our contributors did not know Ruby when they started. If you're interested in getting involved with platform development, our l... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
If anybody can help us get the media references that would help satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements, that would be great! I would particularly like to see us on [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Q%26A_sites) (with linked page). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285128 |
Filters as a separate thing are part of that feature request I want to write but haven't yet. (The main part is "user-defined", but that pretty much forces separate placement.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285128 |
Oh, good idea -- use the controls we have already, and change the default. (We're going to hit a point soon when we have too many buttons there, but by then maybe we'll have built a filtering UI and won't need as many horizontal buttons.)
I agree we don't want to call it "hot". Besides what you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285122 |
@#54706 agreed -- not trivial, but when we set up Software Dev we did so anticipating that sub-communities might eventually split off, so nothing *prevents* it AFAIK other than deciding about things like the points you raised. Merger is probably the easier case: nobody's going to lose abilities, and... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285122 |
Re "does the software support it?": I think we can assume that if this is what both communities want, we can find a way to do it. (Probably through direct database manipulation by one of the devs with access.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284764 |
Definitely an oversight. [GitHub issue tracking this](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/694). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285098 |
I noticed this a while back and filed [an issue](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/679) on GitHub, but it looks like no one's gotten to it yet. I agree the current situation is confusing. We didn't think to poke at "all reactions disabled" in testing, oops. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285085 |
I'm not seeing the tag on the post or in the editor. Are you still? If so, do you also see it in a different browser or incognito window? (I'm wondering if something is being too-heavily cached.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284458 |
Reactions are signed, not anonymous (unlike votes). Does that make a difference? (I'm not arguing either way, just probing.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284468 |
About upper case: we didn't think to disallow it, and then somebody used it for a proper name. I think there was some discussion somewhere after that, but inconclusive. We should probably discuss making tags case-preserving but case-insensitive, to prevent "Tag" and "tag" coexisting in the same tag... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284973 |
Just to answer a question in this post: no, admins don't have an interface for that either. If a deleted post is getting in the way (perhaps because it's long), the best thing to do would be to edit it. The original is still available in the history should anybody need to review it, but the deleted... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284972 |
The question title asks how to promote on Reddit, so I was expecting a question about best practices, avoiding unwanted promotions, etc. The question body instead asks about specific communities on Reddit that might overlap with ours. Which do you mean to ask? (I think the question in the title is... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284937 |
Yikes. Thanks for the report! (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284531 |
Testing - sorry for the extra ping @#8176. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284888 |
Someone suggested a solution and I believe will submit a PR, so we should be able to fix this. (I don't understand the issue deeply; I'm the messenger, not the programmer. :-) ) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
Admins can now delete tags. Mods can escalate a request to admins. (Removing a tag involves touching a bunch of places in the database, because it's "as if it never existed", so admin-only for now at least.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280176 |
The last part is done now; if you hover over a tag that doesn't have a short description, you see "no description yet". (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280176 |
This was done a while ago but I missed this update. If there is a short description, it shows on hover. What is missing, and I hope to improve, is that if there *isn't* a short description, there's no hover text at all. I think it would be better to show something like "no description yet" so it do... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
Github issues: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/719, https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/720. I haven't proposed auto-clean first; I think first we need to enable deleting and then have a way to be alerted that there are unused tags (and which they are), so communities can clean them ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
I'd like both -- some sort of auto-cleaning, and also better tools for mods to manage this. We haven't gotten to it yet, but I'll make sure we have issues tracking these (might exist already; will check and create if not). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
Just saw your update. Weird! I had to use my work computer to try this on Windows and I don't control the DNS there, so I can't exactly replicate your situation, sorry. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
I just tried, also using Firefox 93.0 on Windows (Win 10, if it matters), and it worked for me. Is it still failing for you? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284720 |
Oh, I like that -- highlight the tag, not the whole post section. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |