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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #74929 |
@aCVn I agree (and with the hyphen, for readability). Aliases are simple additions. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #74998 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74808 (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #74943 |
@Mithrandir24601 I've made another proposal for data import in a new answer. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75012 |
Post edited: clarified: magic is still a disqualifier |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #75015 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site Target audience: explorers and experimenters A vibrant community around cooking will involve a lot of exploration and experimentation -- we're mostly going to be avid amateurs who are doing, or trying to do, great things in our kitchens at home. Sure, if restaurant chefs join us we'll welcome the... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75014 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site Fresh start I wasn't active on the SE site, so I don't know what the state of things is like there. But this site isn't being founded by SE people who want to emigrate; I see no discussion on their meta about moving, though there was some discussion of unhappiness a few months ago. Rather, this s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75013 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site The comments indicate that we have a few people here who would be interested in participating. I think current events could make this a timely site -- more people are cooking more at home than previously and probably have questions. (I know I do, even though I'm an experienced cook.) To move for... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75012 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Speculative Science Alternate approach to data import The data-import code has now been improved, and it is now feasible to do multiple imports over time if we want to. I've also learned some lessons from the Writing site, which imported ten years' worth of content somewhat indiscriminately (my fault). I'm therefor... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #75007 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Body preview of writing a question can appear differently than when posted... This happens because the preview is being rendered client-side by a JavaScript library, while the actual post is being rendered server-side using a Rails library. I've been told it's not feasible to use the exact same library in both places, but finding a way to resolve these differences (so they be... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #74961 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Bug reports: meta.codidact.com or codidact.org? If you know that an issue is specific to our network and not the code, please use Meta. This could include things like editing the help or changing configuration settings. If you don't know (that's fine!), please report bugs on either Meta or GitHub, whichever you prefer. We monitor both, and if... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74953 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What should we do about tagging in Site Proposals? This answer builds on Peter's answer (thanks!). I think we need to approach tags along two axes. One is tracking status of proposals, as suggested by Peter. We did this informally when I added "status-launched" to the Photography post, but we can and should track status through earlier stages to... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #74950 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Tabletop Role Playing Games I think this is a site that could do well here. RPGs are popular, numerous, and varied, and questions would also be varied -- questions about rules, questions about technique (playing a druid well, maintaining tension as a GM, designing resiliency to avoid TPKs, etc), questions about adventure desig... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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A: Speculative Science Data Import Update: alternate proposal We already know that the data import should exclude questions tagged "magic", of which there are about 1800 (it's the fifth-most-popular tag). Reviewing the tag list there, I spotted a few others that we might want to exclude (this is just based on th... (more) |
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