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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: What mentoring is available for qpixel development? We're absolutely interested in helping new contributors, and we don't have as strong a mentoring program as we'd like. We encourage prospective contributors to join our platform Discord server, which is distinct from the communities-focused server linked in the right sidebar. The platform server is... (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
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A: Add new global flag reason: AI We have added a new flag type for all post types: > Generated by AI: This post appears to contain AI-generated content (such as ChatGPT) without attribution This places the focus on the attribution part, which is definitely a violation of our policies across the network. For properly-attribute... (more) |
— | 6 days ago |
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A: How can I view my deleted posts? I've just tested a small change that would always show your deleted posts on your own profile. Other users (without sufficient privileges) can't see them, as now. Should we always show you your deleted posts, or should we provide a show/hide option? I would want to see all my stuff, but I've bee... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
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A: Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts It's been a long time since this question was asked, and in the meantime there have been lots of changes to the platform. It turns out we can do most of what you're asking for now, although some key steps are restricted to moderators and aren't yet available to people with other abilities. I'll des... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
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A: Error 500 on Tags page Update: the 500 error is now fixed; if you pull the Qpixel `develop` branch you'll pick this up. See below for a workaround in the meantime. (The seeding problem that caused the 500 error isn't fixed; that's a deeper issue.) -- Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you check the category se... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: How are site policies decided on Codidact? The Policy and Legal sections in the Help Center are policies set by the providers of the network -- in this case, the Codidact Foundation. The Qpixel repository includes "stubs" for these pages for other networks to populate -- we have a code of conduct and other networks probably do too, but they'... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: See user activity across all communities We want to add a network profile. Our initial thinking is around giving you a list of your communities and an overview of your activity there. After we do that, it would be possible to extend it to allow you to drill down into that more, for example to see a list of all your posts on the network in... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages I'm glad you found the tag. Another place where some context shows up is on the page you linked to for the `git` tag: posts tagged git, subtag of version-control, 13 child tags (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Submit same flag multiple times When you submit a flag we don't refresh the page, and so when you flag again the flag modal doesn't "know" about your previous flag yet. After a refresh, you'll get the "you've previously flagged this as..." notice. While duplicate flags are a little noisy, this can only happen if you flag twice ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard Help topics are static content, so adding the status of your own abilities there is not feasible. The links for the individual abilities in the help are to the same pages as the links in the user-specific list: side-by-side images with same links circled; also, button for abilities dashboard circ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Tables break words in first column Not necessarily the first column, but there's something wonky in that one: | X | Element | Description | |---|---------|-------------| |.| hydrogen | Fusce molestie nibh id tellus semper, at porta nisi rhoncus. Praesent malesuada odio a fringilla sollicitudin. | |-| helium | Curabitur malesuada... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: What is the difference between the subdomain forum.codidact and the rest of the communities? As noted in Mithical's answer, the forum was for early bootstrapping, before we had this network up and running. It used `.org`, not `.com`, to try to make that distinction a little clearer. After we got our network up and running, we archived the forum -- it's still there, so you can browse those ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Display post titles instead of the URL for internal links A step toward this: if you choose "copy link" on a top-level post, you now have two options, the raw link and a Markdown version. The Markdown version uses the post title as the link text. So it's not automatic -- if you paste a URL in from your browser you'll get a naked link -- but it's possible ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org I am not able to reproduce this. I visited the "create post" page with NoScript turned on and this is what I see: NS shows codidact.com and a few others but not codidact.org Can you say more about where you saw `codidact.org`? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: What is Codidact's policy regarding artificial intelligence-generated content? Due to a technical limitation (working on it...) I can't mark this as a duplicate of our network gen-AI policy, but see that link. To summarize: - Presenting non-original work as your own is a violation of our plagiarism policies, regardless of who or what wrote the material you used. To the ext... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Should we directly link to the proposals site for new proposals in the Help Center? Thanks for the report. I've updated this topic to link to How to propose a new community, which describes the process instead of just dropping the person on the Proposals site. Admins have an option when editing help to push the change to all sites (that haven't locally edited the topic). I chos... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
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A: Minor suggested edits to old posts One of the linked questions, about not bumping minor edits, has a suggestion that would have helped in this case: allow edit reviewers to decide if an edit is minor. For that to happen, at last two people were involved, and the owner of the post is also notified of the edit suggestion. If we did ju... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
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A: A refactoring convenience function. Sometimes a brain dump is a bunch of questions and answers, and in that case (as suggested in another answer) it's best to do the "dump + refine" step separately and post when ready. That way people don't see, and consider answering, questions that aren't yet ready for attention. Other times a br... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
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A: Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview Column alignment in tables now produces a warning that it won't render in the final post (it's part of the "unrecognized HTML" warning). Also, the editor preview now shows the same formatting as the final post, with all columns left-aligned. I'm sorry we couldn't fix it the other way, by supporti... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it I agree that we probably do want people to be able to self-close,[^1] as a way to signal "I know this needs work" that's less destructive than deletion. If we allow that, though, then we should do one of the following: - In the close modal where you choose a reason, if you are the author and you ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Inconsistent tagged question counts The tag count incorrectly includes deleted questions. I see that the GitHub bug tracking this is marked "easy", so I'll see if I can find the relevant query and fix it. (No promises, as I'm pretty green when it comes to Ruby, but I'll try! I've touched a few lines of Ruby code! :-) ) Update 202... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers > In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones. Yes. Community moderators can edit all help topics except the network-policy ones. A community's Meta category is a good pl... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: How should we phase out the Site Proposals category? The Site Proposals category is only shown to logged-in users, the text at the top points to the new proposals site, the "post" button says "not here" and refers to the new site, and if you try to post anyway, it shows a big READ ME FIRST message pointing to the new site. We could hide the entire c... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Recent feature changes to the Codidact software February 2024 - Answers can now be sorted by age, in addition to score (default) and activity. - Flag pages for moderators and on the user profile now show when the flags were raised and handled. The (moderator) page of handled flags is now paginated. - The page for a tag now shows if you a... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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A: Linking to posts with anchor text is too hard Post titles are now self-links, and in addition, the "Copy Link" control (everywhere) now offers two options, raw and markdown: (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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A: Add pending suggested edits to the dashboard Pending edits are now shown on the dashboard in places where you have the Edit Posts ability (or are a moderator or admin) -- that is, where you can do something about those edits: screen shot from a test server To further improve visibility of pending edits, we've also added cross-references (... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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A: Indication that I have flagged a post When you start to flag a post that you have active flags on already, you now see something like this: (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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A: Some things I observed as I started poking around Codidact Thank you very much for this feedback. Seeing our platform through the eyes of a newcomer is very valuable, and there's a limited time window to capture those impressions. I'm going to comment on some of the points you raised without attempting to cover everything, in the interests of doing somet... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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A: How are tabs handled in code blocks? To answer the question of what the behavior is: in a dev environment, I created a post with two code blocks, one containing spaces and one containing tabs. I couldn't just type the tabs into the post editor because the browser intercepted the tab and treated it as "move to next field". I created te... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Trying to use Markdown formatting on detail-section labels causes unexpected centered alignment in preview There are sometimes unfortunate differences in the preview and final rendering, due to having to use different libraries for client-side and server-side rendering. I don't know if there's anything we can do about this oddity. In the other post you linked, the problem is caused by the markdown hea... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: What html tags can we use in posts? Thanks to Moshi, we now have some checks in the editor, so you'll now get a message about unsupported elements. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Filters don't allow negative Min Score We've added some better guidance in the UI, including the score ranges (0-1) and a link to the scoring help. The layout isn't as nice as it would be if the work had been done by someone with a deeper understanding of how to do front-end layout, but perfect is the enemy of done, so here's something t... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Miscellaneous Flag modal problems We have removed the "needs author's attention" flag, which I believe addresses the remaining issues raised here. Marking status-complete; please let us know if we missed anything. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Add a "log out of all devices" button I would like that too. Unfortunately, this would require some major code reworking. Sessions are currently stored client-side via cookies, and our developers tell me that moving them into the database is a large change. If and when we move to multiple web servers we will need to do this work, but w... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: How can I fix or edit comment thread titles? Not yet, but this is a functional gap that we want to fix. Currently, moderators can silently rename threads; we want to allow anybody who is involved in the thread to change its title with public logging (a new auto-comment in the thread saying something like "so-and-so renamed from X to Y"). (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response The presence of an answer already blocks deletion (except by moderators, who can override this). Allowing the presence of a comment to prevent deletion would be too easy to abuse, as pointed out in other answers. Moderators can recover comments, so in the event that there was something important in... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: How do I "answer" a feature request or a bug report? For bugs, you can use answers to add more information if you have it, for example if you've seen the reported problem under different circumstances or if you have seen something work that is reported as a bug. Most of the time, as you said, a bug report is "answered" by a status-complete tag after a... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits This is a bug in the front end (fix is under review now), but despite the incorrectly-shown message, you can in fact approve edits to your own posts. The buttons are active and they work. We're sorry for the misleading message; it should be fixed soon. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: New and interesting question feeds without email There is an RSS feed for each category, which is now linked at the top of the category post list. We've removed the "subscribe" button, which was for the email subscriptions, because those subscription links are already in the right sidebar. We don't have a global (network-wide) feed yet. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Get rid of minimum character requirements Status completed: title length, body length, custom flags. -- Minimum title and body length are configurable per category. I'll lower the body length here on Meta; if other communities want to lower these limits, please let us know via a support request on your meta. We have an open issue t... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Indicate change in reputation in voting summary Counter-proposal: how about if we add the rep settings at the top of the Vote Summary page, instead of computing and adding them to each entry? I'm imagining something like this: > Reputation for up/down votes: > Q&A: Question +5/-2, Answer +10/-2 > Sandbox: Article +0/-0 > Meta: Questio... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page The ability is based on the Wilson score of all your edit suggestions, yes, so that one declined one counts against you. There's been lots of discussion about (a) whether the thresholds are too high and (b) whether we should revamp the abilities system to use other metrics (in addition or instead). ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: How does "@username" work in comment threads? > When a comment does not include "@username", who is notified? People who are subscribed to the thread are notified. Anybody can subscribe. You are automatically subscribed (but can unsubscribe) if you are the author of the post. > When a comment does include "@username", is that user always... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Grace period for immediately noticed small errors If we allow immediate updates to be "folded into" the original post, I would want to block it if anybody has interacted with the post -- if someone voted in that first minute, then an unannounced edit shouldn't be ok. Yes this is rare, but sometimes you get these quirks of timing. (It's happened to... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Missing "Participate" ability on one community That is...bizarre. I've manually granted Participate and Participate Everywhere to you, and also to Karl Knechtel who reported the same problem in a comment. I have no idea how that happened and will raise it with people who have database access to see if we can figure it out and if anyone else was... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Notification on edits to voted post That could get noisy if it were the default behavior. But maybe we should consider, instead, an option where you can choose to be notified of new activity on a specific post. We already have an option to follow new comment threads on a post; should we generalize that to following new activity, whic... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow Partial answer, which I hope to flesh out later (but probably won't have time today): I hope that people will ask questions here, regardless of whether they've been asked elsewhere, when someone here cares about the topic.[^1] This can be because you have a question, but it can also be because yo... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: "Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option We have a change pending to remove this non-flag from the flag list. (There's a story there that I'll get back to.) To the point raised in another answer, people can still use "other" to request closure. Something that came up in the discussion of this change was: how should we let people flag f... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags Thanks for the report. The approval failed because the edit added a moderator-only tag -- `default-rules` on Code Golf, like the `status-` tags, can only be added by moderators. But they can be suggested by anyone, which we should probably revisit to avoid situations like this. I know there's been... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online? We don't have a form, but you can email us to request this. From the privacy policy: > As an international organisation, we extend the rights granted by the EU GDPR to everyone. Therefore, all our users have the right to the following: > > - Access: You have the right to request a copy of all t... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |