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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: How does voting on site proposals work? I don't understand those voting patterns either. Because people vote for all sorts of reasons, ranging from "I enthusiastically support this" to "that sounds reasonable to me (but I wouldn't participate" to "I think there are serious flaws" to "I am opposed to any site about X regardless of the meri... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts Record your interest here If you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, something else?), or edit the post directly. I'll edit comments into the post later. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Tables in posts You can now use tables in HTML or Markdown. See an example with Markdown: ```` | Latin | English | Spanish | Catalan | |-------- |--------- |--------- |--------- | | filum | thread | hilo | fil | | filius | son | hijo | fill | | furnus | oven ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: HTML tables are misdisplayed Testing: Downvotes Minimum upvotes to stay above 40% 1 1 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 3 6 4 7 5 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community? I'm speaking only for myself here. Unfortunately, we're still kind of winging this, and learning as we go. We now realize we launched some early communities without enough active, engaged members, but we don't know where that sweet spot is yet. We don't want to hinder communities, and we also do... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Medical science site This proposal seems to have a good baseline for moving forward. There are answers about definition, sometimes controversial, but it looks like there's a good foundation to work with -- y'all will have to work out some of the scope boundaries on your meta, but you've got a starting point. You've got... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Tag contents don't reflect merge after 24 hours We haven't identified the cause of this bug yet. It's not caching. The posts are correctly tagged, but they aren't showing up in the tag search. One is deleted so wouldn't anyway (but I guess the count included the deleted post?). One is an article, but other articles show up in tag searches so i... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A clickable X that doesn't work We just deployed a fix for this (noticed as part of investigating another bug). Please try again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Newsletter #4 (October 2020) Hello from Codidact! This past Friday was Codidact's first birthday! We're counting that from the day that luap42 set up a Discord server to discuss building a new Q&A platform. One thing led to another, and a few weeks later there was a GitHub repository, a Discourse forum for discussion, a wik... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site suggestion - Code Golf Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site suggestion - Code Golf Based on new comments here, I had a conversation with some folks in the Nineteenth Byte on Discord to ask them about their interests and needs. I pointed out the TopAnswers site, which some of them were not aware of, and pointed them to this proposal. There seems to be interest in having a communit... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site for Economics Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? I am starting to think about user preferences. This won't happen for a while, but I'd like to gather input so we can start thinking about a functional design. Currently a user has a single account across our network. When you edit your description or your display name or your blog link, those ch... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Allow licence change when there's only one contributor I agree that authors should be able to make an immediate edit to change the license -- you post, only then notice the default license, and can't fix it. That's frustrating. The workaround of deleting and reposting is extra hassle -- and, for answers and for people who can see deleted posts, adds cl... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we have a community for Reviewing Code? Should it be a separate community, or should Software Development also support code reviews (as a separate category)? It feels like there are natural affinities there, including linking to existing content and asking followup questions, but I didn't participate in CR over there so I don't know how r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What languages have syntax highlighting support? Codidact uses highlight.js for syntax highlighting. We support whatever languages are enabled by default in that package; we haven't restricted them. As I write this, they list 189 languages with examples on their website as well as on a table on their GitHub. Syntax highlighting is enabled for ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE We have a tool for doing bulk imports of questions (and answers) from SE. It has several limitations: - Running it requires direct DB access. - The resulting data is sometimes wrong in various ways -- duplicates, answers not getting wired up to the right questions, something that blocks voting som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Do we have/should we have community wikis? Update: We didn't do what I proposed here, but we instead created a wiki post type. See there for details. I wrote a GH ticket based on this suggestion, with the following expansion: We should avoid the term "community wiki", which was sometimes confusing on Some Other platform too. If we ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why not have a physics community for physics enthusiasts? Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Post on Stack Exchange and Codidact You own your posts and are free to do with them as you choose, including posting them in more than one place -- here, Stack Exchange, Quora, Reddit, etc. By posting on Codidact you grant us a license to use your posts, but it's not an exclusive license. Thank you for supporting Codidact! If you ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why was this answer to the volunteer-discussion removed? That answer (and this meta question) prompted a lot of discussion. This discussion is a good outcome. We are by the community, for the community, which means if the community questions what we're doing, we need to discuss that. We don't need to keep engaging if someone is clearly out to be disrupt... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Orientation / Welcoming Committee Welcome to Codidact! Codidact is very much a work in progress, and input is welcome. This network-wide Meta is the best place to find existing feature requests. Some also come in as GitHub issues (in the codidact/qpixel repository -- that's the main code repo). It's best to look around and get ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: To be constructive, or not to be constructive, that is the question. No system of rules can run only on statutory rules. There is always case law, because no set of laws/rules that people can actually manage will ever include everything. We are trying to write a clear, succinct "statute" about what we expect on our network. We know that some things will require h... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community Rules I agree; we need to help communities communicate clearly about their norms, particularly to newcomers. Each community has a "FAQ" or "introduction" topic in the help that moderators can edit, and moderators can create other help topics. Electrical Engineering has built out a body of site-specific h... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How granular should network communities be? A community with common interests is a part of it too. At Some Other place somebody wanted to combine all the Abrahamic religion sites into one, arguing that they share a lot of biblical books and tags could differentiate religious context. I argued against this because the three communities view t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question? Today I saw the following question on Software Dev (this is the beginning): title and first paragraph could apply to several languages (rest of post...) The title, "connect with SLOT/SIGNAL:QPushButton clicked signal not received by main window" sounds like it could be about one of several... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Allow users to link more than one website in their profile. Let's talk about design. Clearly we wouldn't want to allow any number of links, because having a thousand links would break the layout in some way. Unless we put it behind a "show more" control of some sort when we reach the "too many to lay out reasonably" point, wherever that is (and it's proba... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we use the Article type for bug reports? I've sometimes seen bug reports be answered with workaround while awaiting a fix. I think I've seen that here on Codidact (though I haven't gone looking for examples). I know I saw it sometimes on Some Other site. I don't know how important it is, but it's something we would lose if we made this c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Medical science site Resources This community should consider compiling and jointly curating a "resources" category (or something similar that serves the same purpose). This could include lists of good (= reliable, credible) references, perhaps broken up by medical sub-field. It could also include a list or lists o... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" How should we handle possibly-outdated reactions? No, not by reactions to reactions. An edit to a post made after reactions were added could change the applicability of those reactions. Somebody might have edited to address a danger or update an out-of-date recommendation. Conversely, somebody ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I was part of that conversation, so my input is mostly reflected in this proposal already. I want to add one thing, about community customization, which gets into philosophy. I don't want us to end up with gazillions of emoji decorating posts. That way lies madness and Discord. A reaction shoul... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What is the policy on importing questions by simply quoting the question over here? I haven't consulted with the rest of the team yet, so treat this as my personal opinion and not Codidact policy, please. Under the terms of the Creative Commons license used at SE (and here), quoting content from there is fine so long as you provide attribution and link. These questions do that (... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Launching a new community with enough contributors even though disagreements exist One of the things we look for in a new site is enough interested participants to make it viable. We now ask people to make their interest known, because votes don't necessarily correlate with intended participation. Sometimes an upvote means "I want this" and sometimes it means "yeah, that sounds l... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Add the ability to customize suspended user profile blurb We don't have a custom reason yet, but there is now a third option: no public reason. This means you don't have to give a wrong reason, even if you can't customize a right reason. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes In an ideal world, bug reports and support requests would be a separate stream from discussions and feature requests. We work with the tools we have, while also working to improve them. (A few people have reported software bugs on GitHub, which is fine too but not something we'd want to require.) ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Was score system changed? Various things, not all of them understood, affect the accuracy of the reported reputation number. For example, sometimes a post is deleted or undeleted but the reputation adjustments don't get made. A system-wide reputation recalculation updates rep numbers by recomputing all of them. An admin ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Need a mathematics Q&A site Needed: a logo. Thanks to everyone who's responded to the other answer about prospective participants. We plan to move forward with this community. Right now the person who's been designing our logos is very busy with other things, so to try to remove barriers, I'm here to ask for your help. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions. I strongly agree that being able to add a new answer after a question has been deleted doesn't make sense, and that most people also shouldn't be able to add comments. (Moderators should be able to, and see the comments for another suggestion.) I think the author should be able to edit a deleted ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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"recent deletions" moderator tool produces error The "recent deletions" link under mod tools is consistently returning a 500 server error for me. One reference: `2ba998b1-84b1-4675-aeb8-bebcf3465b5f` I've tried this on two sites. It's been a few days since I last accessed this tool anywhere, so I can't pin down when this behavior might have st... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we allow capitalized tags? I think tags should be case-preserving and also case-independent. By this I mean: I do not want us to have two tags that differ only in capitalization, because I think that will lead to errors and confusion. (If you need tags for "apple" the fruit and "Apple" the company on the same site, find some... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community Wiki Posts I think you're asking about what SE calls community wiki, as opposed to the community user. On SE, the Community user owns things that are otherwise ownerless, like posts from deleted users. Community wiki, on the other hand, is a status that an individual post has, meaning "make it easy for people... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is there a consensus on comment layouts for the MVP and beyond? Thank you for raising this question. We've been a little vague in our plans for comments, aside from (irony alert) comment threads in some Figma wireframes that aren't the most visible. Speaking for myself and not for the team: I use TopAnswers too, and the sidebar chat works ok on a desktop ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is there a consensus on comment layouts for the MVP and beyond? We have some early, crude wireframes showing our ideas on comment threading: collapsed threads under a post, expanded thread. Be sure to turn on the comments view. It looks like you need a Figma account to see comments (free, but it's still one more account to manage), so I've added some screenshot... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Need a mathematics Q&A site Scope Please edit this; I am not a mathematician and am deriving this from activity on this proposal. Scope for this site would include: - all branches of theoretical and applied math: algebra, category theory, arithmetic and number theory, combinatorics, topology, measure theory and probabi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Could "last activity" link to where it happened (e.g. specific answer)? On a list of questions or posts, each entry has a "last activity" indicator showing who last changed it and when. Would it be possible to have "last activity" be a link to the post that changed? Particularly on questions with many answers (like some meta and challenge posts), I'd really appreciate ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Newsletter #3 (August 2020) The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on August 10, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Hello from Codidact! We have a number of updates to share about our communities, platform, and project. Thank you for joining us in this venture to buil... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Music site, for both fans and musicians Are questions about business aspects of music also in scope? Issues such as: - securing licenses & paying royalties when performing others' works - finding and negotiating for performance venues - managing your sales (accounting, taxes, etc) - agents I don't have an opinion for or against. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Music site, for both fans and musicians Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please either leave a comment or edit this post describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic wit... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What's a relation between trust levels across various Co-communities? The prerequisites for various site activities (currently reputation, to be replaced with trust levels) are configurable per site. The difference you're seeing for voting isn't so much intentional as an artifact. The default is to let even brand-new users have a few votes per day, and that's the set... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Hide Deleted Comments I, too, find that the deleted comments get in the way, but I'd propose a simpler structure. We mods and admins don't need to see the entire structure in an overview; we just need to know that there are deleted comments (and how many) and have a way to show them. I propose that there are three state... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |