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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: CC BY-SA 3.0 license doesn't show The imported post is CC BY-SA 3.0 because that's how the source (Stack Exchange) licensed it. That notice reports a license. The list of licenses you can choose when posting here is unrelated. That list is configurable (per-community), so if people want 3.0 to be an option we can add it. So far... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why isn't there a "contact us" button in the footer of this website? You're right, and that's been on our to-do list for a while, sorry. You can send email to support@codidact.com. We have a support portal under development; email actually flows into that now and the back end works, but I think you need to create an account on that platform and we'd rather wire that... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: send mail for new community Apart from the email question, which as Art said can be controversial, we want to have a better way to notify people who expressed interest when a new community launches. We'd need to write a whole new "proposals" framework to do that right, which is a lot of work and we have higher-priority tasks r... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Could "last activity" link to where it happened (e.g. specific answer)? Please ignore this answer (if you see it). We need to test a specific scenario involving, ironic, "last activity". (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: I can't post a comment to an answer ; jquery errors appear in (Chrome) browser console We believe this has been fixed by some other changes made since you reported this. I marked it status-completed based on that, not because I can point to a code change. If you see this again, please let us know. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals? We have just launched Linux Systems and Power Users. Both communities have some outstanding scope issues from their proposals, but that's fine: there's enough of a baseline to get started, and the communities can continue to work out details on their community metas. Welcome aboard everyone. We'... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Post edited by a user but no changes visible We have had some bugs in edit history. Fixes for these bugs apply to future edits, but we don't have a good way to update events that predated the bug fixes. That edit was six months ago and I know we've fixed history bugs since then. If you see a new edit that doesn't show history correctly ple... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? Speaking for myself and not the team (I haven't discussed this with anyone else), here are some things I'd like to consider: - We shouldn't try to programmatically determine what a "minor" edit is; in the right context, one character is a major edit. Designation as minor needs to be human-powered... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Understanding how posts were possibly received by the community --- network wide I think what you're asking for is (1) better information about votes you're receiving, so you know which posts are being up- or down-voted, and (2) for that information to be available in one place. For the first, we do want to provide this information on the user profile page. You should be able... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts I'd like to propose a different way of thinking about the problem (and I agree there are problems here). Some premises: - New users don't know how things work, so we need to keep it simple. - Many non-veteran users are deterred by bad "people" experiences -- if your question is off-topic the... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Bootstrapping: who can speak for a community? It's been a while since I asked this question. In the meantime we've launched several communities that weren't transplants from SE, so most of our communities didn't start with "imported moderators". Here's what we're doing for all communities now: When a community is new, the moderation load is... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage There's been a lot of discussion here and on other proposals and questions about this idea. We want to launch a general "software users" community where questions about applications, OS settings, cloud-based tools, etc will all be in scope -- the broad approach we also took with Software Development... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Let's revamp our status tags I agree that distinguishing these kinds of responses from other moderator-only tags would be helpful, and that we don't need to keep doing what we started doing early on when we needed something. The "status-" is part of the name to avoid having only one type of "encoding"; somebody who can't se... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only Quoting is sometimes necessary for context. Sometimes an answer needs to focus on one part of the question -- one claim, one line of code, etc. Not being able to quote would impede clarity. This doesn't mean we don't want askers to improve their questions. If somebody asks for clarification, yo... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Separate question and answer in profile Yeah, we definitely want to improve that aspect of the profile page. We want to allow you to break posts out by type and also by category -- you shouldn't have to dig through all your Q&A posts to find that one article you posted in the "resources" category. Because we can now add new post types,... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: information of codidact Welcome to Codidact. I'm glad you found your way here. In case you haven't seen it yet, The Codidact Vision lays out, at a high level, what we aspire to build. We put community first, and feedback from the community is very important in shaping what we build. We're a very small team currently... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why is there a rep system in Codidact? We didn't set out to have a reputation stat, but because we started by adapting code that had it, we started out that way. When we brought up removing it, a few people objected strongly. (See, for example, this discussion.) We've "nerfed" reputation; unlike on SO, reputation doesn't affect your ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: What to do about sock puppets in Site Proposals? There is some amount of subjectivity in evaluating proposals, which is not ideal. It's important for us (all, together) to figure out how we can improve our process. Ultimately we probably need to make some software changes to better support proposals, but right now we have those "indicate your int... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add more context in the community ads It looks like this has changed; I just saw this: "Check out this article" I'm inferring that the ad is now sensitive to the type of post being linked; I'd like to confirm that with the developers before marking this status-completed, since I've only got the one data point so far. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: What are the pros and cons of gamifying Codidact.org? I want to supplement Mithical's answer, with which I agree. Broadly speaking, Codidact has three major pieces, all essential: - its communities, without which none of the rest of this would matter - the platform itself (the code that runs our communities) - the development team, the people who ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: How to ensure that duplicating a post from another website won't cause content duplication that would hurt Codidact's SEO? There are two aspects to copies, license/attribution and duplication. The CC-BY-SA license doesn't require you to include attribution links for your own work. This is why, on communities with imported content, we remove those attribution links when people claim their imported posts -- we no longe... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Can comment input fields be vertically scalable? The comment box is now resizable; drag the control in the lower right corner down to make the area bigger. Because comments can include newlines, wide Unicode characters, and probably other unpredictable things, choosing a size to fit 500 ASCII characters in a paragraph wouldn't be a complete solu... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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New preference: show the icon for SE imports (off by default) Three of Codidact's early communities did large-scale imports of content from Stack Exchange, and at the request of some community members, we added an icon to those questions on question lists. Over time, some have felt that the utility of that marker has dropped off; after many months, both import... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage Summary: I'm breaking this out from this answer so it can be voted on separately. It sounds like we have consensus, but it's a little hard to tell. > Power User Codidact is a community where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usage. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Ad templates don't work with Articles The bug with ads for individual articles is fixed. The ad templates for random posts (at all, or from a specific category) apply some selection criteria, so we don't accidentally promote poorly-received posts, closed questions, etc. I'm not sure what those criteria are, but according to a comment... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: The history diff does not highlight tags being added This is now fixed for new tag-only edits (example), but we don't have a way to go back and fix older history entries. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Cancelation prompt is unintuitive The behavior of the dialogue has now been fixed -- clicking "ok" abandons your changes and returns you to the page you were on, and clicking "cancel" puts you back in the editor (with your changes still there). We're relying on the browser to present the confirmation and the interfaces there don't s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Can a moderator promote Codidact for free on Reddit? We don't seem to have active Redditors (people with the track record that would prevent being labeled as spammers), but I'm all for responsible promotion! Do we have within our community an established Reddit user with a good track record who'd be willing to work with us on this? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why not broaden Electrical Engineering to Engineering? The scope of the Electrical Engineering community is up to them. If you want to propose changes, you should ask on their meta. We don't impose scope on communities; we allow communities to define their own boundaries. The EE community was specifically proposed as EE and not general. The proposa... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Advertise on Stack Exchange? SE sites (that aren't in beta) have "community ads", which are ads submitted by users on that site for things they think will be of interest to other users on that site. Some use them to promote SE-specific things like sandboxes or weekly chats. Some use them to promote external resources of variou... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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Newsletter #6 (February 2021) Hello from Codidact! We're here with another batch of recent news. Platform Since our last newsletter, the team has been focusing on bugs and smaller features, including: - Search is now inline; you can click the box and start typing instead of having to go to another page. You can also se... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: How can I filter out tags in my search? Tag search is now completed. The help isn't updated yet, but: to use a tag in a search, use the syntax `tag:tagname`. You can use the `-` operator with it, same as for other search terms. Searching for two tags is an AND. I tried your search and it returns both questions and answers. It looks ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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How should we make pending edit suggestions more visible? Each category header includes an "Edits" link, which is a link to a list of pending suggested edits in the current category. But nothing alerts people with the ability to approve those edits that something is waiting, other than that the author of the post gets a notification. This means that somet... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? Linux, Unix, both? Other answers here talk about Linux, Unix, and Unix-like systems. Neither of the scope posts has a lot of votes yet (and we can see that WSL is controversial). Is this a Linux-only community or broader? What's the one-line summary we could present to people who casually come ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Do we need the drop down menu at the upper right corner to link to all other communities? We added that drop-down menu in response to requests from community members. Yes there's a link in the footer (and that has been brought up before), but many feel that we need something a little more prominent. A widget in the header also helps with discovery; people who visit a Codidact community ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: What customizations are available on Codidact? Site-level settings These settings apply across all parts of a community. Unless the category-level settings say otherwise, they can't be overridden for individual categories. General: - Name - Color scheme (there's a menu; we can't change to arbitrary color values) - Default category (usua... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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What customizations are available on Codidact? On Codidact, lots of things can be customized for individual communities. Generally these changes need to be made by admins, but we'll make them on request. But what are all these things? What can communities customize? (Eventually this will be a help topic, but while things are under active de... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Transferring my questions and answers from StackOverflow and other SE sites As this answer says, yes, absolutely -- it's your work and you're free to post it here. While you're doing so, please see if you can improve it too. Instead of just copying stuff, let's make it better on Codidact. And if you want to import answers, the best approach is to re-ask the question in ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals? We have some software (but not software-development) proposals: - "Superuser-like" community for software applications - office suites - Linux Are these three separate, distinct communities, or should any of them be combined? Office suites strike me as a subset of the kinds of software a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself. This is fixed now. We know that the error message isn't very informative; we'll try to address that later. But you now get one of those pink pop-up error messages if you try to link a post to itself when closing. We are not yet detecting duplication loops; this is a narrower fix. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Move posted dated box to white space to the left of poster information? We have moved the post date/time and license info to the left side, along with the edit info. This separates the metadata about the post from the information about the user who posted it. We have no plans to change the size of the reputation number. By the way, the stats that are shown in that b... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site for Where is This? Identifying Places in pictures? Please use this post to indicate your interest in helping to build this community. You can either edit this post (if you have the edit ability on Meta) or comment and someone else will edit it into the post. Please indicate if you expect to be a casual or more active participant. If you anticipate... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: closure-as-duplicate post notice is inaccurate We have an issue open to fix this in the code, but I recently realized that moderators can also fix it locally: the close reasons are editable. I've edited it here on Meta to say "This question has been addressed elsewhere". Moderators, please consider backward compatibility when editing close re... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What about having a category in Meta for documentation about the platform? This is an interesting idea. We have help, but only moderators can edit it. We want documentation about the platform (as opposed to how our network or particular communities operate) to end up in the help that is part of the platform repository and seeded to all new communities -- but not everythin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? A lot of Codidact's distinctives, as Manasseh notes in comments on another answer, are about how the Codidact team and the community interact -- that communities here have much more control, that the team is accountable to the communities not to shareholders, much better responsiveness to requests an... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: We should delete all old imported content. Writing already has consensus to delete unclaimed, untouched, imported posts. We should see how that changes things, and then the other two communities with large-scale imports can decide how they want to proceed. Writing, at least, is unlikely to be interested in throwing out work that people he... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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New communities: Music, Physics We have launched two new communities, Music and Physics. As new communities with no data imports, they are blank or nearly-blank canvases now. We'd like to have some content before we advertise them off-network (in the communities list), but y'all won't necessarily notice them if we don't announce ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: When clicking "mark read" it shows a 0 when it should actually dissapear. With a bit of effort, you can even do this: -1 I think the code that shows the notification count draws the notification "container" (the blue circle) once, and then just updates the number from some data value. Only when you close and reopen the notifications, or refresh, or move to another... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we have customised text in the "Posting Tips" banner for each post type? I think this is a bug. There is default guidance for answers that is different from that for questions, and a category can override either or both. This category does not override the answer guidance, so it should be getting the default. Instead, it's getting the question guidance. To answer yo... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we get an option to remove a post from the nominated posts list? Moderators can now see a list of promoted posts and can remove a question from the list there. I acknowledge the imbalance: anyone with the Curate ability can nominate, but only moderators can remove. I hope we will be able to improve this tooling in the future, but now at least moderators can re... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |